"It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that."

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Source : "Paul Muldoon: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 26, 2003.

Paul Muldoon

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“How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.”
“There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.”
“Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
“Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.”
“There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.”
“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
“I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.”
“That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.”

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