7 Quotes & Sayings By Norman Maccaig

Norman MacCaig was born in Inverness, Scotland. He was a poet, painter and author. In 1954 he came to America and settled in San Francisco. He published his first book of poems, The Last Three Days of the Fall, in 1962 Read more

It won a National Book Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His other books include The House on the Hill, At the Edge of the Woods, and Blue Bayou, which won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Landscape is my religion.... God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water. Norman MacCaig
Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded...
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Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me. Norman MacCaig
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Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses? Norman MacCaig
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I will not feel, I will notfeel, until I have to Norman MacCaig
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. 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