"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people……" — Paul Muldoon
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry"
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27 Quotes by Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon has 27 quotes on this site.
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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by…
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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
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The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches…
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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect
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Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of…
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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language
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Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read
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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that…
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I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I…
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