"I never think about poetry except when I’m writing it. I mean my poetry." ― Norman MacCaig Topic(s): Famous More From 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." "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." "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." More In Famous "The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."― Mother Teresa "I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it."― Dave Chappelle "I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time."― Chloe Moretz