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Norman MacCaig

Birthday: November 14, 1910
Deathday: January 23, 1996
Category: Scottish Poet
Type: Poet
National: Scottish

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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends...

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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've...

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And in a way, that's been a help to me,...

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James....

And some poets are far better read off the page...

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't...

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood....

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However, I learned something. I thought that if the young...

I don't care whether a book is a first edition...

I don't think of myself all the time....

I find it's impossible for me to read Proust....

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it....

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise...

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I...

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you...

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and...

I was very interested in American poetry for many years....

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills...

If I wrote a play with four characters every single...

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute...

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like...

People haven't got the interest in long long works these...

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years...

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Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away....

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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my...

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