Norman MacCaig Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Norman MacCaig quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 33 we have.
“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”
“And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.”
“But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.”
“I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.”
“I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.”
“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”
“I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.”
“If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.”
“People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.”
“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”
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