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- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. — Paul Muldoon
- Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon
- The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon
- Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. — Paul Muldoon
- Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. — Paul Muldoon
- I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. — Paul Muldoon