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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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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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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My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.
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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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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I'm the glue that holds everything together.
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
