On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place. Paul Muldoon More Quotes by Paul Muldoon More Quotes From Paul Muldoon Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level. Paul Muldoon levels political trying I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987 Paul Muldoon northern-ireland ireland born I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. Paul Muldoon rhyming language believe Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read. Paul Muldoon courses people We simply have not kept in touch with poetry Paul Muldoon I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme Paul Muldoon rhyming use television For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry Paul Muldoon reading reason people I don't shape trends, I'd say. I merely reflect them. I think the emphasis is on 'them.' I like variety in poetry. I love how it comes in so many guises. As rock lyric, as rap, as note on a fridge. Paul Muldoon say think poetry love I met Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley on the same day in 1968. I was sixteen at the time. Very exciting. They were reading at Armagh. One of my teachers brought me to meet them, introduced me, and I became friends with them. Paul Muldoon day me friends time The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with. Paul Muldoon how being you sometimes The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. Paul Muldoon reach poetry moments people At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays. Paul Muldoon high high-school teacher school I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on. Paul Muldoon irish read century poetry
