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Paul Muldoon quotes: I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

Paul Muldoon quotes: That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon quotes: The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Paul Muldoon quotes: 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 quotes: I do a lot of readings.

I do a lot of readings.

Paul Muldoon quotes: I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

Paul Muldoon quotes: Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Paul Muldoon quotes: Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

Paul Muldoon quotes: There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

Paul Muldoon quotes: It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

Paul Muldoon quotes: 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 quotes: We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Paul Muldoon quotes: I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

Paul Muldoon quotes: 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 quotes: 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 quotes: Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,

Paul Muldoon quotes: If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

Paul Muldoon quotes: I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

Paul Muldoon quotes: Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Paul Muldoon quotes: 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 quotes: Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.