Gay Poet Quotes

#1. Did you have a ship?" Maya asks. "Yes. It had books on it, and it really was more of a research vessel. We studied a lot." "You're ruining this story." "It's a fact, Maya. There are murdering kinds of pirates and researching kinds of pirates, and your daddy was the latter.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. Know that your soul can do whatever you want it to do, because you're not your body

Daniel Marques

#3. Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

Padgett Powell

#4. Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.

John Ashbery

#5. Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#6. Don't kill me because I'm gay,
pray for me for it is God who created me.

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#7. I looked up at the sky. A mother wants to make friends with her daughter. The daughter wants a mother more than a friend. Ships passing in broad daylight. Mother has a boyfriend. A homeless, one-armed poet. Father also has a boyfriend. A gay Boy Friday. What does the daughter have?

Haruki Murakami

#8. Four days. And she had two gay sons, a large black mother, a demented poet for a friend and was considering getting a duck. It was not what she'd expected from this visit.

Louise Penny

#9. It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Thom Gunn

#10. Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out.

Christopher Bram

#11. In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

John Updike

#12. Looking behind causes nothing but broken spells and wasted pain

Cassandra Clare

#13. When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

George R R Martin

#14. For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

David Cannadine

#15. Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Allen Ginsberg