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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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.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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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
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In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
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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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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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