I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetr… — Quoted

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“I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.”

Norman MacCaig · Poetry

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Norman MacCaig

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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