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1. "IfIf your hand came, dead in the dead of night,And touched my forehead, waking me to seeYou standing dead there in the dead of night,I who fear ghosts would have no fear at all.I'd greet you with the tenderest helloAnd you would smile, though sad. And then you'd go.There would be nothing deathly in your deathFor your love always was the laughing sortThat quickened life and would not die with death.And when you'd gone, I would not want to weep -- That loving gaiety would still be thereFilling with its own peace the quickened air." ~ Norman MacCaig

2. "But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!" ~ Norman MacCaig

3. "I find it's impossible for me to read Proust." ~ Norman MacCaig

4. "I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out." ~ Norman MacCaig

5. "I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry." ~ Norman MacCaig

6. "I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that." ~ Norman MacCaig

7. "If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex." ~ Norman MacCaig

8. "People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share." ~ Norman MacCaig

9. "I will not feel, I will notfeel, untilI have to" ~ Norman MacCaig

10. "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

11. "When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me." ~ Norman MacCaig

12. "I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own." ~ Norman MacCaig

13. "A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest." ~ Norman MacCaig

14. "And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so." ~ Norman MacCaig

15. "Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away." ~ Norman MacCaig

16. "All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about." ~ Norman MacCaig

17. "And it's impossible for me to read Henry James." ~ Norman MacCaig

18. "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" ~ Norman MacCaig

19. "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." ~ Norman MacCaig

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