Roger McGough Quotes

• The only problem
  with Haiku is that you just
  get started and then

  Roger McGough

  Poetry, Problem, Haiku

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• Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

  Roger McGough

  War, Thinking, Everyday

  Roger McGough (1989). “Selected poems, 1967-1987”, Jonathan Cape

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• If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
  If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

  Roger McGough

  Love, Heart, Crowns

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• If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

  Roger McGough

  Decision, Indecisive, Ifs

  Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2005.

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• There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

  Roger McGough

  Moon, Trying, Looks

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• If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul

  Roger McGough

  Children, Father, Reading

  "Emma Brockes interview: Roger McGough". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2005.

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• Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

  Roger McGough

  Water, Clean, Holy

  1967 'Let Me Die AYoungman's Death'.

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• I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

  Roger McGough

  Computer, Switching, Terrified

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• by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

  Roger McGough

  Needs, Pace

  1973 'unlikely now'.

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• I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

  Roger McGough

  Fate, Way, Cases

  1982 'When I Am Dead'.

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• Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together

  Roger McGough

  Thinking, Yes You Can, Together

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• Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?

  Roger McGough

  People, Flying, Faces

  1982 'Waving At Trains'.

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• You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

  Roger McGough

  Broken Heart, Shoes, Promise

  'Comeclose and Sleepnow'

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• The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

  Roger McGough

  War, Hands, Glee

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• People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

  Roger McGough

  People, Best Poem

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