Norman MacCaig

• “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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  –Norman MacCaig

  teachers

• “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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  –Norman MacCaig

  poetry

• “I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.” -Norman MacCaig

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  –Norman MacCaig

  nature

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