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Top 10 Roger McGough Quotes (2025 Update)

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

1. “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

Roger McGough Quote: “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?”

2. “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

Roger McGough Quote: “Let me die a youngman’s death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.”

3. “Let me die a youngman’s death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.”

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.”

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

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Roger McGough Quote: “I could never begin a poem: ‘When I am dead’ In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.”

6. “I could never begin a poem: ‘When I am dead’ In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.”

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “There’s the moon trying to look romanticMoon’s too old that’s her troubleAren’t we all?”

7. “There’s the moon trying to look romanticMoon’s too old that’s her troubleAren’t we all?”

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “I’m terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.”

8. “I’m terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.”

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Roger McGough Quote: “People can put their best poems straight onto the web.”

10. “People can put their best poems straight onto the web.”

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “If I decide to be indecisive, that’s my decision.”

11. “If I decide to be indecisive, that’s my decision.”

— Roger McGough

Roger McGough Quote: “I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

12. “I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

— Roger McGough

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