"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."

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Source : Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

Paul Muldoon

#Engagement Quotes #Poet Quotes

“All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'”
“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.”
“I am most scared of being bored”
“He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.”
“Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it”

Source : William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.”
“I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.”

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