80 Quotes by Paul Muldoon

There’s very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.