I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme. Paul Muldoon percentrhymetelevision Change image and share on social
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. Paul Muldoon accessibilityclarityimmediacy 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
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door. Paul Muldoon accusationactivelyback 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
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
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
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. Paul Muldoon edgeengageextent 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
