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Norman MacCaig

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

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Donna Grant

"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."

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Donna Grant

"How many things can I do without?"

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Donna Grant

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

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Donna Grant

"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."

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Donna Grant

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

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Donna Grant

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."

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Donna Grant

"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."

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Donna Grant

"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."

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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 was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books."

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

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Norman MacCaig
"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."

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Norman MacCaig
"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."

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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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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
"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."

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Norman MacCaig
"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."

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Norman MacCaig
"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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