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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

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If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

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The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.


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Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

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I thought of you tonight, a leanbh, lying there in your long barrow,
colder and dumber than a fish by Francisco de Herrera.


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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Born: June 20, 1951 (age 73)
Bio: Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G.
Known for:
  1. Moy Sand and Gravel (2002)
  2. The annals of Chile (1994)
  3. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing: Poems (2015)
  4. Quoof (1983)
  5. Madoc: A Mystery (1990)

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