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

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

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon