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

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

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens

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

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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

#help #her #him #however #i

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

— Norman MacCaig

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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

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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ↗