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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didnt think so. -

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didnt think so. – Norman MacCaig

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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

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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you cant teach poetry. This is ridiculous. – Norman MacCaig

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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