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You Quotes by Norman MacCaig
- When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
- 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 miscellaneous…
- 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 that.…
- But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
- There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened -…
- I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
- And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
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