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  • 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

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

    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

  • It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

    Book   Writing   Trying  
    "Paul Muldoon: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 26, 2003.
  • 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

    Song   Average   Years  
  • It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

    Want   Chimes  
    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

    People   Frost   Icy  
    Thumbscrew Interview, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. 1996.
  • I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

  • I do a lot of readings.

    Reading  
  • Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

    People   Courses  
    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

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

    Reading   People   Reason  
  • Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • We simply have not kept in touch with poetry

  • Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

    Years   Judging   Lasts  
  • I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

  • 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.

    Doe   Littles   Crops  
    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

  • The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

    Interview with Paul Muldoon, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. 1996.
  • One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

    Poetry   Tree   Way  
    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • 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.

    Issues   Hands   Facts  
    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

    Engagement   Poet   Edges  
    Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
  • Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

    Way   Houdini   Form  
    The Irish Times, April 19, 2003.
  • 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.

    Doors   Welcome   Reason  
    Interview to Thumbscrew Magazine, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. Spring, 1996.
  • If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

    Harper’s Magazine, September 1999.
  • The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

    Eye   Feet   Noses  
    Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.
  • I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

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