68 Quotes by Norman MacCaig

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

Landscape is my religion....God in a green legend, I lean over the poolIn a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branchesAnd floored with a skin of water.

I will not feel, I will notfeel, untilI have to

Self under self, a pile of selves I standThreaded on time, and with metaphysic handLift the farm like a lid and seeFarm within farm, and in the centre, me.

I think these movements and become them, here,In this room's stillness, none of them about,And relish them all-until I think of whereThrashed by a crook, the cursive adder writesQuick V's and Q's in the dust and rubs them out.from "Movements

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.