The best thing anybody has ever done is to advise me against publishing a poem that shows me at less than my best, such as it is. That's the kind of advice most of us resist but really should relish. Paul Muldoon adviceadvisekind Change image and share on social
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. Paul Muldoon artificialdeviceimpose Change image and share on social
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 adeptbookdocumentary share on social
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 dayhappenireland Change image and share on social
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. Paul Muldoon educateincludeinterest Change image and share on social
I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of what's happening in poetry in English. I'm interested in poems that are first-rate. After that, I'm not too concerned if they come from Queens or Queensland. Paul Muldoon acknowledgeconcernenglish share on social
At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays. Paul Muldoon acceptessayhigh Change image and share on social
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Paul Muldoon keylivemoment Change image and share on social
I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on. Paul Muldoon centuryfrenchirish Change image and share on social