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Paul Muldoon quotes

English Poet June 20, 1951

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Paul Muldoon quote: "I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my..."
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987. Paul Muldoon
Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content. It was him; two acres of barley, One of potatoes, four bullocks, A milker, a slated farmhouse. He was last seen going out to plough. On a March morning, bright and early. By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with. The last rig unbroken, his pair of black. Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight from foot to. Foot, and gazing into the future. Paul Muldoon
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
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. Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon quote: "Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked..."
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. Paul Muldoon
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon quote: "Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read. 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
Paul Muldoon quote: "The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach..."
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon quote: "I do a lot of readings."
I do a lot of readings. Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon quote: "I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and..."
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too. 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
Paul Muldoon quote: "We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon quote: "One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert..."
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon quote: "Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many..."
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. Paul Muldoon

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