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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
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
— Norman MacCaig
I will not feel, I will notfeel, until
I have to — Norman MacCaig
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
— Norman MacCaig
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
— Norman MacCaig
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
— Norman MacCaig
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.
— Norman MacCaig
Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
— Norman MacCaig
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
— Norman MacCaig
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings ... That's not quite true!
— Norman MacCaig
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
— A.E. Housman
That suddenly, these things can exist and you're not quite sure how they existed without you knowing about them before.
— Pleasefindthis
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
— Norman MacCaig
I don't think of myself all the time.
— Norman MacCaig
It is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.
— J. Budziszewski
For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
— Robert B. Parker
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
— Norman MacCaig
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
— Norman MacCaig
It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Well,we lost it,
and
that's all there is
to that. — Charles Bukowski
I just didn't want to shoot other people.
— Norman MacCaig
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
— Norman MacCaig
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
— Norman MacCaig
But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
— Virginia Woolf
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
— Norman MacCaig
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
— Norman MacCaig
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
— Norman MacCaig
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
— Norman MacCaig
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
— Norman MacCaig
The dayWas like the buzzard on the pine. — Norman MacCaig
