Author: Norman MacCaig

Quotes

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

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

- Norman MacCaig

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

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

- Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

- Norman MacCaig

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.

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

I don't think of myself all the time.

I don't think of myself all the time.

- 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... That's not quite true!

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

- Norman MacCaig

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

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

- Norman MacCaig

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

- Norman MacCaig

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

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

- Norman MacCaig

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