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Paul Engle

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.

Art, School, Corn, Born, Composer
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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.

Ideas, Language, Ordinary, Power, Reading Poetry, Together

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.

Horse, Father, Firsts, Manure, Corncobs, Mangers

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.

Cities, Farm, Love, Tries, Vision, Voice

I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them?

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The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Christmas, Mother, Memories, Sharpest, Making, Settled
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