1.
The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
Roger McGough
2.
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
3.
If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.
Roger McGough
4.
There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?
Roger McGough
5.
If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.
Roger McGough
6.
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
7.
Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.
Roger McGough
8.
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
9.
by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.
Roger McGough
10.
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Roger McGough
11.
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
Roger McGough
12.
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
Roger McGough
13.
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.
Roger McGough
14.
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
15.
People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
Roger McGough