Poetry Taught Quotes by Norman MacCaig

“The day Was like the buzzard on the pine.”

— Norman MacCaig

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

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

— Norman MacCaig

I don't think of myself all the time.

— Norman MacCaig

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

— Norman MacCaig

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

— Norman MacCaig

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

— Norman MacCaig

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

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

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

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

— Norman MacCaig

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

— Norman MacCaig