Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. - Norman Maccaig
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
- Norman Maccaig
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that … - Norman Maccaig
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that …
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
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!
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. - Norman Maccaig
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. - Norman Maccaig
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. - Norman Maccaig
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. - Norman Maccaig
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar. - Norman Maccaig
I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar.
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about. - Norman Maccaig
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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