34 Quotes by Roger McGough

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then

Let me die a youngman’s death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because you’ve done a comedy performance but because you’re talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

I could never begin a poem: ‘When I am dead’ In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

There’s the moon trying to look romanticMoon’s too old that’s her troubleAren’t we all?