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> [I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.](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/)

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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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