For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – 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
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe