I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme. Paul Muldoon percentrhymetelevision 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
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 buoyclichegrind Change image and share on social
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. Paul Muldoon endpoemsense Change image and share on social
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 certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. Paul Muldoon accessibilityclarityimmediacy Change image and share on social
The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world. Paul Muldoon backpoempoet Change image and share on social
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine. Paul Muldoon awarecompetitioninnisfree 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 met Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley on the same day in 1968. I was sixteen at the time. Very exciting. They were reading at Armagh. One of my teachers brought me to meet them, introduced me, and I became friends with them. Paul Muldoon armaghbringday share on social
