Chance Quote by Paul Muldoon

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read

— Paul Muldoon

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…

— Paul Muldoon

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

— Paul Muldoon

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,

— Paul Muldoon

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

— Paul Muldoon

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…

— Paul Muldoon

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

— Paul Muldoon

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect

— Paul Muldoon

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not…

— Paul Muldoon

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

— Paul Muldoon