Paul Muldoon Quotes

We Simply Have Not Kept In Touch With Poetry

Frost Isn’t Exactly Despised But Not Enough People Have Worked Out What A Brilliant Poet He Was.

I Believe That These Devices Like Repetition And Rhyme Are Not Artificial, That They're Not Imposed, Somehow, On The Language.

I Live In New Jersey Now, Which Always Gets A Bad Rap Here And There, But I Must Say, I Enjoy Living Here Too

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.

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

I Was Born In Northern Ireland In 1951. I Lived Most Of My Life There Until 1986 Or 1987

Last Year I Was A Judge For A Prize In England, The T.s. Eliot Prize, So I Read Everything That Was Published In England Last Year.

I Do A Lot Of Readings.

There's Very Little Of The Intentional About The Business Of Writing Poetry, As Least As Far As I Can See.

I'm Sure 50 Percent Of Television Ads Use Rhyme

The Ground Swell Is What’s Going To Sink You As Well As Being What Buoys You Up. These Are Clichés Also, Of Course, And I’m Sometimes Interested In How Much One Can Get Away With.