Roger McGough famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then
-- Roger McGough

#Poetry #Problem #Haiku
Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.
-- Roger McGough

#War #Thinking #Everyday
If the heart bleeds love, bare it, If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.
-- Roger McGough

#Love #Heart #Crowns
If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.
-- Roger McGough

#Decision #Indecisive #Ifs
There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?
-- Roger McGough

#Moon #Trying #Looks
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul
-- Roger McGough

#Children #Father #Reading
Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.
-- Roger McGough

#Water #Clean #Holy
by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.
-- Roger McGough

#Needs #Pace
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
-- Roger McGough

#Fate #Way #Cases
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together
-- Roger McGough

#Thinking #Yes You Can #Together
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
-- Roger McGough

#Computer #Switching #Terrified
Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?
-- Roger McGough

#People #Flying #Faces
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
-- Roger McGough

#Broken Heart #Shoes #Promise
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.
-- Roger McGough

#War #Hands #Glee
People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
-- Roger McGough

#People #Best Poem

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