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

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon

Thats one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does ones little turn – that youre just part of the great crop, as it were. – Paul Muldoon