Top 38 Quotes by Paul Muldoon

About Paul Muldoon

These are some quotes by English author Paul Muldoon Poet, who was born on June 20, 1951.

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

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

Paul Muldoon

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.

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

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

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

Paul Muldoon

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

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

Paul Muldoon

I was reared on American TV and films. There was a huge sense of occasion about going to the cinema in Moy in the late 1950s and early '60s, and I absolutely loved those Hollywood sword-and-sandal movies like Ben-Hur and the dime-a-dozen cowboy-and-Indian films, as we then referred to them.

Paul Muldoon

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

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

Paul Muldoon

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

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.

Paul Muldoon

I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.'

I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.'

Paul Muldoon

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

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

Paul Muldoon

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