The Many Days Quotes

“I will not feel, I will not
feel, until
I have to”
― Norman MacCaig, The Many Days: Selected Poems

“There are bad journeys, to a bitter place
I can’t go to – yet, I lean towards it,
tugging to get there, and thank God
I’m clogged with the world. It grips me,
I hold it.”
― Norman MacCaig, The Many Days: Selected Poems

“I learned words, I learned words; but half of them
died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use
often look at me
with a look that whispers, Liar.”
― Norman MacCaig, The Many Days: Selected Poems

“I thought I was hurt in my pride only,
forgetting that,
when you plunge your hand in freezing water,
you feel
a bangle of ice round your wrist
before the whole hand goes numb.”
― Norman MacCaig, The Many Days: Selected Poems