"Words want to find chimes with each other,……" — Paul Muldoon
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect"
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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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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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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the…
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The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result…
— Caroline Myss
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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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Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's…
— Henry Vaughan
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Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet…
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook…
— W. S. Gilbert
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Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime…
— Robert W. Service
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The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came…
— Glenn Reynolds
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And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
— Andrew Marvell
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