Paul Muldoon's Quote - The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out t

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out t

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

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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

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Id never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. Ive always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. – Simon Armitage

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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