Phrase by 'Norman MacCaig'

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

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Well , Away , Things , Light


When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Me , Know , Nobody , Fishing


A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Your , Friends , Start , Lost


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.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Me , People , Know , Better


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.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  You , Me , Poetry , Fishing


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

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  You , Nothing , Will , Poetry


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.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Me , Sometimes , Great , Way


And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Me , Read , Impossible , Henry


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.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Name , Thinking , Good , Eyes


And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Author: Norman MacCaig - Scottish Poet
  Think , Poetry , Taught , Question


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