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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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.Norman MacCaig
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
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I don't think of myself all the time.
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I just didn't want to shoot other people.
Norman MacCaig
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
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