"The point of poetry is to be acutely……" — Paul Muldoon
"The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away."
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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…
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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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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes,…
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still…
— Agatha Christie
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the…
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
— Thomas Reid
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So…
— Elie Wiesel
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
— William E. Simon
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those…
— Walter Lippmann
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is…
— Jean Toomer
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five…
— Yukio Mishima
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed…
— James Payn
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