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1. "The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed." ~ Paul Engle
2. "Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage." ~ Paul Engle
3. "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
4. "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
5. "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." ~ Paul Engle
6. "I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys." ~ Paul Engle
7. "To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance." ~ Paul Engle
8. "Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid." ~ Paul Engle
9. "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
10. "Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder." ~ Paul Engle
11. "Human life is too difficult for people." ~ Paul Engle
12. "I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat." ~ Paul Engle
13. "Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses." ~ Paul Engle
14. "When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages." ~ Paul Engle
15. "You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store." ~ Paul Engle
16. "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
17. "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
18. "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
19. "The way to praise a poet is to write a poem." ~ Paul Engle
20. "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
21. "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
22. "I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!" ~ Paul Engle

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