"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
― Norman MacCaig
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History
More From 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."
- "I never think about poetry except when I’m writing it. I mean my poetry."
- "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."
More In History
- "What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He’s been bridging divisions his whole life."― Henry Louis Gates
- "There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come."― Georgios A. Papandreou
- "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."― Stephen Hawking