English - Poet | June 20, 1951 -
Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenly. It needs to be expanded in the school curriculum and be more a feature of society at large. The newspapers should all be carrying a daily poem. It should be as natural as reading a novel.
Paul Muldoon
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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
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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.
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
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Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
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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.
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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
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I do a lot of readings.
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I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
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