More From Paul Muldoon
- "One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
- "The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
- "For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
More In Poetry
- "There’s nothing wrong with the car except that it’s on fire."― Murray Walker
- "Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early."― Rita Dove
- "Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."― Carl Sandburg