Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder. Paul Engle corncobfiregreat Change image and share on social
Human life is too difficult for people. Paul Engle difficulthumanlife Change image and share on social
When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting. Paul Engle absolutebrilliantlyclass Change image and share on social
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 offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer. Paul Engle alternativecallcareer share on social
You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store. Paul Engle achdrugentire Change image and share on social
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love. Paul Engle cityfarmlanguage Change image and share on social
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words. Paul Engle barnbrutalclash share on social
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, tough skin of words. Paul Engle bloodbondelicate Change image and share on social
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 find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found. Paul Engle ditchfindhill share on social
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys. Paul Engle boyfriendgentile Change image and share on social