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Norman MacCaig

When I talk of hearing a poet’s voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

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

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

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

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn’t kill a fly myself but I’ve no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that’s not the only reason.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

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.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

It’s like breathing in and out to me. It’s like having a conversation with someone who isn’t there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody – not a particular person, or very rarely.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can’t stand that.

– Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

– Norman MacCaig

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