Roger Mcgough Quotes

#1. Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

Nancy Etcoff

#2. There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

Roger McGough

#3. The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then

Roger McGough

#4. 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

#5. By thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

Roger McGough

#6. 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

#7. Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

#8. If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

Roger McGough

#9. People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

Roger McGough

#10. If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Roger McGough

#11. I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

Willow Bay

#12. So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis,
Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies

Roger McGough

#13. We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.

Roger McGough

#14. You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Roger McGough

#15. People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

Steven Soderbergh

#16. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#17. I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

Roger McGough

#18. To the best of your knowledge, Charles, do villains ever permit themselves to be rained on?"

"Not to my knowledge, no, sir.

Sandra Marton

#19. Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

Roger McGough

#20. Noone knows and noone sees
we lovers doing what we please
but people stop and point at these
ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese

Roger McGough

#21. I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

Roger McGough

#22. I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

Roger McGough

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. The whole time I hadn't slept with anyone at university had made it harder and harder to finally do it. Like spending too long on a very high diving board, until finally you have to exit ignominiously, the same way you climbed up.

Olivia Sudjic

#26. I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

Roger McGough

#27. The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.

Roger McGough