poetry

Paul Muldoon | poetry

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

You don’t help people in your poems. I’ve been trying to help people all my life – that’s my trouble.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings – about human feelings and frailties.

Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

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