A Quote by Paul Muldoon

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

Paul Muldoon

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Chance Destination Interesting Obvious Off Poem Ride Setting

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Paul Muldoon
English - Poet
Born: June 20, 1951

If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it. ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."

Brian Regan

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

Lil Durk

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

Steve Erickson

It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.

Giles Andreae

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

Billy Collins

I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

Nicolas Cage

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

David Baldacci

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Voltaire

The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

Richard P. Feynman

Dystopia is a very interesting setting. Whether it's '1984' or 'Fahrenheit 451'... Dystopia is a wonderfully cinematic setting.

Vikramaditya Motwane

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

Randall Mann

The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.