Quotes about Norman MacCaig

I don't think of myself all the time.

#Norman MacCaig

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a...

#Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry...

#Norman MacCaig

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to...

#Norman MacCaig

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice...

#Norman MacCaig

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

#Norman MacCaig

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

#Norman MacCaig

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers....

#Norman MacCaig

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

#Norman MacCaig

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions...

#Norman MacCaig

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

#Norman MacCaig

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry...

#Norman MacCaig