Roger McGough Quotes

"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
- Roger McGough

"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
- Roger McGough
(Related: Dress, Guilt, Ideals, Will)

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
- Roger McGough
(Related: Poetry)

"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
(Related: Poetry, Father, Soul, People, Performance, Children, Comedy, Dying, Reading, Talking, Want)

"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
- Roger McGough
(Related: Decision)

"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
- Roger McGough
(Related: Computer, Poems)

"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
- Roger McGough
(Related: Now, Word)

"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
(Related: People, School)

"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
- Roger McGough
(Related: People, Poems)