Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs He turns revo… - Thom Gunn

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Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs
He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time.

Thom Gunn

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Thomson William "Thom" Gunn (29 August 1929 in Gravesend, Kent – 25 April 2004 in San Francisco) was an Anglo-American poet.

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Birth Name: William Guinneach Gunn

Alternative Names: Thomson William Gunn

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Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one
The great grey rigid uniform combined
Safety with virtue of the sun.
Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy,
To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

One joins the movement in a valueless world,
Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled,
One moves as well, always toward, toward.

Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time. - Thom Gunn

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