I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

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• Paul Muldoon:

  I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

• Paul Muldoon:

  I do a lot of readings.

• Paul Muldoon:

  I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy livin

• Paul Muldoon:

  I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back

• Paul Muldoon:

  I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

• Paul Muldoon:

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

• 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.