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

Paul Muldoon on Poetry

More quotes about Poetry

• "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

  T. S. Eliot on Poetry

• "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

• "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

More quotes by Paul Muldoon

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

• "For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."

• "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."

• "We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."