#d

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

#fact #good #hand #influence #ireland

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

#crop #does #great #great things #just

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

#away #being #cliches #course #get

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

— Paul Muldoon

#key #lives #moments #other #out

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#been #i #illness #like #rudder

I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi. ↗

— David Wenham

#armstrong #bruce #film #film industry #fred

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

— Paul Muldoon

#despised #enough #enough people #exactly #frost

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

— Paul Muldoon

#i #percent #rhyme #sure #television

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

— Paul Muldoon

#each #find #other #things #want

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

#because #consciously #developed #film #good