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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
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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 toNorman 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