"Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level"

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

Paul Muldoon

#Political Quotes #Trying Quotes #Levels Quotes

“A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.”
“Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.”
“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lula Fortune". "Wild at Heart", 1990.
“Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.”
“We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not a very good football team right now.”
“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
“I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.”
“Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.”

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