We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

- Paul Muldoon

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

- Paul Muldoon

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

- Paul Muldoon

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

- Paul Muldoon

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aimi…

- Paul Muldoon

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

- Paul Muldoon

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

- 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…

- Paul Muldoon

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

- Paul Muldoon