At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I’m certain. Poems were shorter than essays. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
