Roger McGough Quotes

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

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

noone knows and noone seeswe lovers doing what we pleasebut people stop and point at theseten milk bottles a-turning into cheese

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