All Norman MacCaig Quotes
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
Norman MacCaig
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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.
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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
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