Norman MacCaig Quotes - Page 2

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

  Norman MacCaig

  Literature, Impossible

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• 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

  Book, Fishing, Sides

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• 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.

  Norman MacCaig

  Passion, Years, Literature

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• 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.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eight, Years, Dying

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• I just didn't want to shoot other people.

  Norman MacCaig

  People, Literature, Want

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• In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, People, Literature

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• When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

  Norman MacCaig

  Men, Thinking, Voice

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

  Norman MacCaig

  Years, Literature, American Poetry

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• I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

  Norman MacCaig

  Boys, Great Love, Literature

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• I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

  Norman MacCaig

  Literature, Mimicry, Invention

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