I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.

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• Paul Muldoon:

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

• Paul Muldoon:

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

• Paul Muldoon:

  Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense

• Paul Muldoon:

  Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

• Paul Muldoon:

  On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence t

• Paul Muldoon:

  One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

• Paul Muldoon:

  That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that yo

• Paul Muldoon:

  The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches

• Paul Muldoon:

  The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in th

• Paul Muldoon:

  We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.