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
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
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell