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

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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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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove

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I was kind of an outcast in school cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didnt know what to make of me. – Christina Perri

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