Paul Muldoon Quotes

A collection of quotes by Paul Muldoon.

Paul Muldoon is a renowned Irish poet, critic, and translator. Born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, he is known for his complex and innovative poetic style. Muldoon has received numerous awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003, and has served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry. His poetry is often characterized by rich imagery, wordplay, and references to history, mythology, and popular culture. Muldoon's works have contributed significantly to contemporary poetry and continue to inspire and captivate readers worldwide.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Paul Muldoon


For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated pe

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

Paul Muldoon


I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my l

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

Paul Muldoon

Life

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert

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

Paul Muldoon

Poetry

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach

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

Paul Muldoon

Poetry

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises tha

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

Poetry