Norman MacCaig Quotes - Page 2

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

  Norman MacCaig

  People, Literature, Want

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

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  Light, Literature, Chuck

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• But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

  Norman MacCaig

  True Love, Nice, Book

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

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  Book, Literature, Care

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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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• 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.

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  Book, Fishing, Sides

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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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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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