And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
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… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings...… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share
