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Norman MacCaig

"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"

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"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"

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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."

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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."

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"Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself."

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"In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile-no black, white, yellow, or red. We could be one great brotherhood in Jesus Christ. However, until we come to recognize Him as the Prince of Peace and receive His love in our hearts, the racial tensions will increase, racial demands will become more militant, and a great deal of blood will be shed. The race problem could become another flame out of control!"

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"The proof of true love for God is in service to others."

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"Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by."

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"Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part."

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Norman MacCaig
"However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird."

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Norman MacCaig
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."

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Norman MacCaig
"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."

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Norman MacCaig
"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense."

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Norman MacCaig
"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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"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."

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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."

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"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."

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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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Norman MacCaig
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."

Solitude

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