Norman MacCaig Quotes

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

Norman MacCaig

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Norman MacCaig

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

Norman MacCaig

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Norman MacCaig

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

Norman MacCaig