"It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed"

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

Paul Muldoon

#Structure Quotes #Quartets Quotes

“In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.”
“You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.”
“But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.”
“That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.”
“The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.”
“I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.”

Source : Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, James Timothy Voorhies (2002). “My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915”, p.58, Univ of South Carolina Press
“Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.”
“I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff. I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.”

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