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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. — 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

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. — Paul Muldoon

I do a lot of readings. — Paul Muldoon

I have seen the Lady April bringing
the daffodils,
Bringing the springing grass and the
soft warm April rain. — John Masefield

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking. — Benjamin Graham

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

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme. — Paul Muldoon

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind. — Ai Weiwei

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read. — 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. — Paul Muldoon

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year. — Paul Muldoon

There is a lot you don't know about me - a lot. I have definitely lived, that's for sure. I will just leave it at that. — Neon Hitch

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? — Stephen King

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini, — Paul Muldoon

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987. — Paul Muldoon

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. — Paul Muldoon

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon

Faith is a gift-but you can ask for it. — Fulton Oursler

After three or four hours of chomping and chewing, Norbert realised that he was very thirsty. — James Sutherland

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. — Paul Muldoon

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed. — Paul Muldoon

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. — Paul Muldoon

Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy. — Marcus Aurelius

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. — Paul Muldoon

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon