3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
3 December 2020 Paul Muldoon That’s one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one’s little turn – that you’re just part of the great crop, as it were.