"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way"
- Paul Muldoon
About this Quote
In this quote, poet Paul Muldoon suggests that after reading Robert Frost's poem about a birch tree, one's perception or understanding of a birch tree will permanently be changed. The poem has the potential to bring out new meanings or associations that were not apparent prior to. Muldoon is basically stating that the poem has the power to change one's relationship or connection to the natural world, developing a brand-new depth of understanding or appreciation for even the most relatively ordinary aspects of life.
This quote is written / told by Paul Muldoon somewhere between June 20, 1951 and today. He was a famous Poet from England.
The author also have 21 other quotes.
"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative"
"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise"
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken"
"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them"
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion"