Paul Muldoon Quotes
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.
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As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]
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Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
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It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.
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As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.
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The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.
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A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
