Quotes by Roger McGough

• 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.
• We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
• You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
• Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
• 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.
• If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.
• I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.
• I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.
• 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.
• People can put their best poems straight onto the web.