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Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet
Born: Nov 14, 1910
Died: Jan 23, 1996
About Books Me Poetry Think You
Related authors: Alexander Smith Andrew Lang James Beattie Robert Burns Robert W. Service William Drummond William Falconer
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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