I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It’s one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, ‘surreal.’ Paul Muldoon Read Quote
One is constantly trying to figure out what came together in one’s childhood. Lots of people spend significant portions of their lives in therapy – especially in the States – trying to work out who they are. I’m certain there is a little of that in the business of writing. That would explain why certain images and themes recur. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think. The kind of teaching I do is more like editing than anything else. The kind of editing book editors used to do before lunch. The kind of editing I used to do as a radio documentary maker. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they’re not imposed, somehow, on the language. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
