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
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry - Paul Muldoon
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
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
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
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…
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. - Paul Muldoon
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. - Paul Muldoon
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. - Paul Muldoon
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
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
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.
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
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…
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. - Paul Muldoon
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.
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