If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“The time I like best is 6am when the snow is 6 inches deep which I'm yet to discover 'cause I'm under the covers… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all? — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“noone knows and noone sees we lovers doing what we please but people stop and point at these ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese” — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies” — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
