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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

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

— Paul Muldoon

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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

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

— Paul Muldoon

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

— Paul Muldoon

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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

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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

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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

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

— Paul Muldoon

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

— Edvard Munch

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