All Paul Engle Quotes
- Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of… Blew
- Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of… All
- There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to… Alternative
- Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking… Bought
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate,… All
- 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… Age
- I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines… Began
- You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store. Aches
- The way to praise a poet is to write a poem. Poem
- But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you… Ditch
- Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black… Black