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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.”

Norman MacCaig · Poetry

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Norman MacCaig

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

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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'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

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

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