Thinking Quotes by Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

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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Norman MacCaig

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.

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Norman MacCaig

I don’t think of myself all the time.

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Norman MacCaig

I never think about poetry except when I’m writing it. I mean my poetry.

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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.

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

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Thinking Quotes by Norman MacCaig

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.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.

I don’t think of myself all the time.

I never think about poetry except when I’m writing it. I mean my poetry.

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.

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

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