Paul Muldoon Quotes

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• What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into…
• One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
• I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
• For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
• The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm…
• Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect
• Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on…
• I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language
• Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read
• We simply have not kept in touch with poetry
• On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good…
• I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too
• It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed
• I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme
• Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously…
• That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop,…
• Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was
• Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,
• It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything…

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