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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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.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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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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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.
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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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