Poetry reading Quotes by Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

— Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

— 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…

— Paul Engle

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Paul Engle

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

— Paul Engle