Paul Muldoon

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
Paul Muldoon

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
Paul Muldoon

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
Paul Muldoon

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
Paul Muldoon

I do a lot of readings.
Paul Muldoon

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
Paul Muldoon

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

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
Paul Muldoon

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
Paul Muldoon

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
Paul Muldoon

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

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
Paul Muldoon

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Paul Muldoon

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

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
Paul Muldoon

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

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

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Paul Muldoon

Herşeye rağmen bunun bir diğer yanı da insanların hayatlarındaki kilit anlarda şiire ulaşmalarıdır.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Paul Muldoon

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.
Paul Muldoon

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