Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig
Norman Alexander MacCaig OBEwas a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 November 1910
books might
There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.
book
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
true-love nice book
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!
book care firsts
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
teacher book paper
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
book fishing sides
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.
book years lucky
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 happens. I feel the same about books.
came century novels people television three time
The nineteenth century novels came from a time when there was no television and people had time to read novels in three volumes.
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
poetry produce
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
writing mean thinking
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
thinking
I don't think of myself all the time.
jobs persons particular
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.