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And if they havent got poetry in them, theres nothing you can do t

And if they havent got poetry in them, theres nothing you can do that will produce it. – 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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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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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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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove

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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and Ive seen ecstasy or something. – Rita Dove

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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