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Quote by Norman MacCaig
All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Tha

All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

Other quotes by Norman MacCaig

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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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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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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Poetry

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge, visionary poetry in it. – Simon Callow

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Poetry

I dont write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. – Andrew Bird

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Id rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when Im forty-five. – Mick Jagger

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. – Warren Chappell

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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. – Diogenes

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Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. – Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org

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