"The ground swell is what's going to sink……" — Paul Muldoon
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with"
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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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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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More Buoys Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
— Jack Adams
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In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed…
— John Worlidge
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So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I…
— Marcus Borg
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Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound.…
— Celia Thaxter
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I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one.…
— Dorothea Benton Frank
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Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut…
— Suzanne Segal
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this…
— Barney Ross
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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered…
— William Cobbett
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I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low…
— Mark Zandi
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Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all…
— Amy Grant
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