"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is……" — Paul Muldoon

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

— Paul Muldoon

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27 Quotes by Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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