Quotes by Paul Muldoon

“We have not solved the water-pollution problem.”

“Its an opportunity to do something weve never quite managed before: to get our programs going in the same direction, under the same aegis, under one form of leadership. I think, in many ways, that the focus this will give us is going to allow us all to give the students a much better service.”

“The center only exists in a metaphysical sense at the moment. There are no bricks and mortar involved now. And indeed, in a strange way, Im rather glad that its not related to a specific building; in some way, I dont think it ever can be. I think theres going to be an expansion and a consolidation so that arts arent ghettoized in a single building, but can instead interact across the campus.”

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, Im certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

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

I do believe that weve a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of whats happening in poetry in English. Im interested in poems that are first-rate. After that, Im not too concerned if they come from Queens or Queensland.