I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme. Paul Muldoon percentrhymetelevision Change image and share on social
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place. Paul Muldoon factgoodhand Change image and share on social
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon birchfrostpoem Change image and 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
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
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time. Paul Muldoon averageconsciouslydevelop share on social
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 agebookplay 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
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 1950s60sabsolutely share on social