Norman MacCaig Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  True Love, Nice, Book

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• 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 behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

  Norman MacCaig

  Book, Fishing, Sides

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• A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eight, Years, Dying

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• And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

  Norman MacCaig

  Passion, Years, Literature

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

  Norman MacCaig

  Years, Literature, American Poetry

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

  Norman MacCaig

  Boys, Great Love, Literature

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

  Norman MacCaig

  Literature, Mimicry, Invention

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

  Norman MacCaig

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

  Norman MacCaig

  Rivers, Fish Tanks, Borders

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