"Last year I was a judge for a……" — Paul Muldoon
"Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year."
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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…
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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 Eliot Quotes
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love…
— Marcus Mumford
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist);…
— A. E. Housman
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The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.
— Jonah Lehrer
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Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in…
— David Markson
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A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another.…
— John Zerzan
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Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise…
— Robert Stack
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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There…
— Marcus Mumford
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I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can…
— Unknown Author
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One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one…
— Unknown Author
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Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration.…
— Bill N. Lacy
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The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and,…
— George Orwell
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