“ One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon
“ I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of what's happening in poetry in English. I'm interested in poems that are first-rate. After that… Paul Muldoon
“ For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. Paul Muldoon
“ 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
“ The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Paul Muldoon
“ 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
