Quote by Paul Muldoon
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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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

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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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I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. – W. H. Auden

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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. – Anthony Hope

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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. – Adrian Mitchell

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