Norman MacCaig's Quote - In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles

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

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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

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Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. – Norman MacCaig

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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

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