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
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon
I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy