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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I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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School didn't work for me. I hated it.
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As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
