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Norman MacCaig

"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."

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"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."

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"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."

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"Small projects need much more help than great."

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"If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient."

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"Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her."

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"I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter."

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"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
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"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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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."
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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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