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. - Paul Muldoon

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

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

We have not solved the water-pollution problem. - 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

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 center only exists in a metaphysical sense at the moment. There are no bricks and mortar involved now. And indeed, in a strange way, I'm rather glad that it's not related to a specific building; in some way, I don't think it ever can be. I think there's going to be an expansion and a consolidation so that arts aren't ghettoized in a single building, but can instead interact across the campus. - 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

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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