Literature Quotes by Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

All I write about is what’s happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

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People

Writing

Norman MacCaig

And in a way, that’s been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet – sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

Literature

Passion

Years

Norman MacCaig

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

Impossible

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Norman MacCaig

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

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Taught

Thinking

Norman MacCaig

Anybody who writes doesn’t like to be misunderstood.

Literature

Misunderstood

Writing

Norman MacCaig

But you’d have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Jobs

Literature

Persons

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.

Bird

Literature

Offering

Norman MacCaig

I don’t care whether a book is a first edition or not. I’m not a bibliophile in that word’s natural sense.

Book

Care

Literature

Norman MacCaig

I just didn’t want to shoot other people.

Literature

People

Want

Norman MacCaig

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I’d throw them out.

Book

Literature

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Literature Quotes by Norman MacCaig

All I write about is what’s happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

And in a way, that’s been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet – sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

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

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

Anybody who writes doesn’t like to be misunderstood.

But you’d have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

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.

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 just didn’t want to shoot other people.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I’d throw them out.

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