Norman MacCaig
Poet
1910-11-14
Books by Norman MacCaig
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A man in my position
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Poems
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Selected poems
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Quotes by Norman MacCaig
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Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?
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Self under self, a pile of selves I standThreaded on time, and with metaphysic handLift the farm like a lid and seeFarm within farm, and in the centre, me.
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Landscape is my religion....God in a green legend, I lean over the poolIn a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branchesAnd floored with a skin of water.
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Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?
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Self under self, a pile of selves I standThreaded on time, and with metaphysic handLift the farm like a lid and seeFarm within farm, and in the centre, me.
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Landscape is my religion....God in a green legend, I lean over the poolIn a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branchesAnd floored with a skin of water.
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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.
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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.
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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
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Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
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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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