"Form is a straitjacket in the way that……" — Paul Muldoon

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27 Quotes by Paul Muldoon

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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by…
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…
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…
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…

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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are… — Hannah Arendt
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in… — Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of… — Aristotle
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it… — Antonin Artaud
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's… — Margaret Atwood

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