Quotes by Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Confusion is what we’re living with – not being able to make sense of what’s happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we’re aiming for – making sense.

Able

Confusion

Make Sense

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

People

Reading

Reason

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

Believe

Language

Rhyming

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

Accessibility

Clarity

Immediacy

I do a lot of readings.

Reading

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

Here And There

Jersey

Rap

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing – that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one’s door.

Doors

Reason

Welcome

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

Born

Ireland

Northern Ireland

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

Chance

Destination

Interesting

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.

Judging

Lasts

Years

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Able

Accessibility

Believe

Born

Buoys

Chance

Clarity

Cliche

Confusion

Crops

Destination

Doe

Doors

Eye

Facts

Feet

Firsts

Hands

Here And There

Immediacy

Interesting

Ireland

Issues

Jersey

Judging

Language

Lasts

Littles

Make Sense

Northern Ireland

Noses

People

Poetry

Rap

Reading

Reason

Rhyming

Sometimes

Tree

Trying

Way

Welcome

Writing

Writing Poetry

Years

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Quotes by Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Confusion is what we’re living with – not being able to make sense of what’s happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we’re aiming for – making sense.

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

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

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

I do a lot of readings.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing – that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one’s door.

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

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

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.

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