"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome……" — 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 being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
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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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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
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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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More Accusation Quotes
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear…
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against…
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is…
— Piers Anthony
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Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
— Paul Newman
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which…
— George Santayana
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One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
— Alan Shearer
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Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing…
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One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may…
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Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues?…
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President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure…
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