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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 not
feel, 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

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when. — Steve Case

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures ... — John Owen

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses? — 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

Books are the best way to engage in other worlds. You can escape the one you're in. — Holly Smale

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

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly. — Hesiod

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig

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

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — 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

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me. — Norman MacCaig

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 only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out. — Norman MacCaig

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

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. — Norman MacCaig

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 day
Was like the buzzard on the pine. — Norman MacCaig

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change. — Meryl Streep