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Paul Engle
American
Poet
Born:
Oct 12
,
1908
Died:
Mar 22
,
1991
Christmas
First
Language
Vision
Words
You
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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
Paul Engle
You
Vision
See
Practicality
Without
Get
Paid
Bills
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
Together
Emotions
Words
Language
Tough
Power
Skin
Delicate
Poetry
Ideas
Ordinary
Held
Raised
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 July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.
Paul Engle
War
Revolution
Every
Our
Soldiers
Kids
Only
Powder
July
American
Heavy
Senses
Century
Exploding
American Revolution
Fought
Early
Fourth
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
Time
Writing
Words
Too Much
Clothes
Down
Too
Those
Poems
Horse
Brutal
Emotion
Smelling
Hill
Course
Still
Years
Where
Poor
Much
Doubtful
Barn
Many
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
Paul Engle
Eat
More
Poetry
Write
Almost
Than
Wanted
Little
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
Paul Engle
Art
Good
School
Made
Master
Gone
Corn
Composer
Born
Architect
Hybrid
Both
Poets
Writer
Like
Instruction
Always
Least
Art School
Established
Then
Sculptor
Painter
Why
Why Not
You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.
Paul Engle
You
Neighborhood
Intrigues
Entire
Come
Know
Tastes
Aches
Store
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
Paul Engle
Christmas
Memory
Mother
Settled
Our
Sharpest
Sure
Bed
Making
Hand
Old-Fashioned
Eve
Christmas Eve
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.
Paul Engle
Christmas
Church
Every
Mine
Churches
Part
Iowa
Always
Sound
Were
Cedar
Begin
Child
Did
Where
Should
Lived
Bells
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.
Paul Engle
Christmas
Food
Cake
Black
Made
Farm
Every
Nut
Ours
Had
Between
Stuffed
Sort
Halfway
Families
Walnut
Dutch
Bread
Dough
Special
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.
Paul Engle
Life
Work
Father
My Life
First
Finally
Object
Horse
Fed
Horses
Saddle
Around
Up
Grew
Central
Pacing
Them
Then
Coach
Manure
Human life is too difficult for people.
Paul Engle
Life
People
Difficult
Too
Human
Human Life
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 our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.
Paul Engle
Lose
Own
Our
Ears
Boom
Those
Daring
Only
Small
Never
Had
Blew
Also
Boy
Ready
Years
Hearing
Hand
Off
July
Up
Friends
Crackers
Often
Cannon
Bursting
Shot
Workout
Homemade
Fourth
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
Class
Vision
First
Took
Meeting
Absolute
Writers
Students
Had
Over
Were
Eight
After
Little
Them
Workshop
Brilliantly
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.
Paul Engle
Great
Survival
Age
Harness
Our
Our Lives
Prolonged
Horse
Facts
Saddle
Pictures
Up
Antiques
Grew
Lives
Bells
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 over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
Paul Engle
Ride
School
High
Would
Fine
Some
High School
Poetry
Horse
Write
Had
Roads
Over
Until
Hills
Around
Making
Repeating
Lines
Began
Cedar
Rhythm
Them
Sandy
Miles
Help
Right
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.
Paul Engle
Country
Changes
Eastern
Constant
Winding
Small
Scene
Crowded
Catfish
Hills
Iowa
Opinion
Hover
Timber
Lot
Contrary
Handsome
Rolling
Where
Flat
Little
Pools
Much
Landscape
Full
Imaginative
I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'
Paul Engle
Life
Home
Heritage
Monthly
Horizon
Atlantic
Poetry
Journal
New
Review
American
Yorker
Ladies
New Yorker
Holiday
Published
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
Paul Engle
Library
Congress
Other
State
State University
Harvard
Indiana
Colorado
Columbia
Town
Town Hall
Hall
Yale
Scores
Louisiana
Michigan
Places
Illinois
Stanford
Amherst
University
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