"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."

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Source : Interview to Thumbscrew Magazine, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. Spring, 1996.

Paul Muldoon

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“For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.”
“God does not have problems. Only plans,”
“The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.”
“When you do you, you can't lose.”
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”

Source : Statement at the Imperial Conference, 1921.
“Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.”
“It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.”

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