"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
-Norman MacCaig
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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.“
-Norman MacCaig
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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
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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
-Norman MacCaig
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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
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"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."
-Norman MacCaig
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"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
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