Logo
Quote by Paul Muldoon
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people o

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

Other quotes by Paul Muldoon

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Paul Muldoon
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Paul Muldoon
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Paul Muldoon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and Ive seen ecstasy or something. – Rita Dove

Category:
Poetry

Poetry always runs away from you – its very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. – Abbas Kiarostami

Category:
Poetry

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. – J. Courtney Sullivan

Category:
Poetry

Poetry… simple, sensuous and passionate. – John Milton, “Of Education. To Mr. Samuel Hartlib,” c.1650

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. – Janice Dickinson

Category:
Home

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

Category:
Knowledge

The feet are the gateway to 10,000 illnesses. – Japanese Proverb

Category:
Health

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. – Ernestine Rose

Category:
Religion