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Famous Paul Muldoon Quotes
“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”
“I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.”
“Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.”
“I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987”
“Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.”
“It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.”
“Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.”
“Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.”
“Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.”