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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. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He has also served as president of the Poetry Society and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. June 1951
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Famous Paul Muldoon Quotes

“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.”

Paul Muldoon

Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.

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

Paul Muldoon

Interviewed in Thumbscrew, Spring 1996. http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=12522

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

Paul Muldoon

Harper's, September 1999.

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

Paul Muldoon

The Irish Times, April 19, 2003.

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