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> [A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/a-barn-with-cattle-and-horses-is-the-place-to-begin-christmas-after/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

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## More by Paul Engle

> [Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/poetry-is-ordinary-language-raised-to-the-nth-power/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/corncobs-are-the-greatest-fire-making-tinder/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/poetry-is-ordinary-language-raised-to-the-n-th-power/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/i-had-been-warned-about-jews-by-my-gentile-friends-they-did-terrible/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/every-christmas-should-begin-with-the-sound-of-bells-and-when-i-was-a/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/writing-is-rewriting-what-you-have-rewritten/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/i-wanted-to-write-poetry-almost-a-little-more-than-i-wanted-to-eat/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/when-i-took-over-the-writers-workshop-it-was-one-little-class-and/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/i-grew-up-in-the-prolonged-survival-of-the-great-age-of-the-horse/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/soldiers-of-the-american-revolution-fought-that-18th-century-war-with/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/the-years-rolled-their-brutal-course-down-the-hill-of-time-still-poor/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/without-vision-you-don-t-see-and-without-practicality-the-bills-don-t/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/contrary-to-slanderous-eastern-opinion-much-of-iowa-is-not-flat-but/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/the-sharpest-memory-of-our-old-fashioned-christmas-eve-is-my-mother-s/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

> [Human life is too difficult for people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/human-life-is-too-difficult-for-people/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

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