Paul Muldoon Quotes
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Paul Muldoon
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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.
B. R. Hayden
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
Antonio Machado
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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.]
Aulus Gellius
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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.
Brian O'Driscoll
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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.
John Arbuthnot
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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.
Paul Auster
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
Jacki Weaver
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...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
E. Lockhart
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Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
Plato
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In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.
Vissarion Belinsky
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Paul Muldoon
