KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Paul Muldoon Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Paul Muldoon

Showing 11-20 of 38 Quotes by Paul Muldoon

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

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

~Paul Muldoon

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: June 20th, 1951

Links

Find Paul Muldoon on Amazon

Related Authors

W. H. Auden
William Blake
John Keats
John Milton
Alexander Pope
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Wordsworth

Popular Authors

Arthur Ashe Frances Farmer Benjamin Franklin Sigmund Freud Paul Mccartney Phil Mcgraw Thomas Merton George Bernard Shaw

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1675 - Edward Teach

1804 - Franklin Pierce

1860 - Hjalmar Branting

1862 - Gilbert Parker

1887 - Boris Karloff

1888 - Harpo Marx

1896 - Klement Gottwald

1916 - Michael Gough

1919 - P. F. Strawson

1920 - Paul Celan

Birthdays on November 23rd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Courage Father's Day Forgiveness Leadership Movies Patriotism Sympathy