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Paul Muldoon

English Poet

Born: Jun 20, 1951

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Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth

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

Welcome Whatever Down Back Worthy Something Could Put Suppose Perhaps Upbringing Accusation Goes Being Door Laid Which Reason Actively

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

I do a lot of readings. Paul Muldoon

Readings Lot

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

Life My Life Born Most Until Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Lived

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed. Paul Muldoon

Me Too Seems Structure Imposed

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

Good Other Some Fact Unresolved Writers Mass Does Issues Hand Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Influence Place Many Level

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

You Sometimes Also Well Cliches Course How How Much Sink Up Get Going Being Interested Much Ground Swell Away

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

People Key Other Side Despite Out Poetry Reach Moments Lives

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

Try First Sense Poem Having Writes First Of All Course Without Go End Up Whatsoever Any Going Where Them Each

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays. Paul Muldoon

Teacher School Laziness High Would High School Poem Poems Weekly Write Instead Accepted Were Than Essay Essays Impulse Certain

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on. Paul Muldoon

Ninth Poetry French Read Lot Irish Century

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world. Paul Muldoon

Best World Poet Back Poems Through Come Go

I love adventure stories. Paul Muldoon

Love Adventure Stories

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

I love the fact that Inuit poetry may resonate with me as much as Irish. Paul Muldoon

Love Me Resonate Poetry Fact Irish May Much

I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.' Paul Muldoon

Needs Suffering Better Think Society Our Rather More More And More Poetry Term Surreal Than Want Much Reasons Sufficient

I don't shape trends, I'd say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on 'them.' I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge. Paul Muldoon

Love Reflect Think Lyric Trends Say Rap Variety Poetry Shape Merely Emphasis Like Rock How Fridge Note Them Many

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

Time Day Me Reading Met Meet Introduced Brought Exciting Became Were Friends Very Michael Same Sixteen Them Teachers

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