Paul Muldoon Quotes

• 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.

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• Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

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• 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.

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• We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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.

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• Of course, you can’t legislate for how people are going to read.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I’m sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

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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 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.

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

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• I do a lot of readings.

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• I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

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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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• Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

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Birth:	20th June, 1951
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Poet

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