Quotes From "The Poems Of Norman Maccaig" By Norman MacCaig

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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