All Paul Muldoon Quotes
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
Paul Muldoon
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
Paul Muldoon
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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 also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Paul Muldoon
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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Paul Muldoon
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I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
Paul Muldoon
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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
Paul Muldoon
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Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Paul Muldoon
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
Paul Muldoon
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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Paul Muldoon
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Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
Paul Muldoon
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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.
Paul Muldoon
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