Quotes about Norman MacCaig

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the...

#Norman MacCaig

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone...

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and...

#Norman MacCaig

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk...

#Norman MacCaig

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

#Norman MacCaig

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

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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of...

#Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for...

#Norman MacCaig

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of...

#Norman MacCaig

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

#Norman MacCaig

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

#Norman MacCaig

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

#Norman MacCaig