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

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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. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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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

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I don't think of myself all the time. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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I find it's impossible for me to read Proust. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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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

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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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