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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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