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Norman MacCaig
Scottish
Poet
Born:
Nov 14
,
1910
Died:
Jan 23
,
1996
About
Books
Me
Poetry
Think
You
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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.
Norman MacCaig
Lost
Seven
About
Ten
Ten Years
Terrible
Terrible Thing
Years
Friends
Closest
Getting
Eight
Dying
Your
Thing
Start
Last
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
Norman MacCaig
Me
People
Better
About
More
Write
Written
Know
Likely
Happened
Them
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.
Norman MacCaig
Me
You
Met
Affection
Side
Books
Those
Poetry
Never
Prose
Most
Course
Fishing
Get
Authors
Behind
Whom
Enjoyed
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
Love
Myself
You
Fly
Men
Hesitation
Out
Only
Bother
Come
Like
Well
Fish
Fishing
Lot
Reason
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
Norman MacCaig
Man
Poet
Think
Voice
Talk
Always
Hearing
Speaking
Presence
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