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 …

- Roger Mcgough

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

- Roger Mcgough

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 stra…

- Roger Mcgough

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

- Roger Mcgough

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

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

- Roger Mcgough

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

- Roger Mcgough

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 beca…

- Roger Mcgough

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

- Roger Mcgough