I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.
Norman MacCaigIn fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.
Norman MacCaigAll 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