The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – 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
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau