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Paul Engle Quotes

American - Poet | October 12, 1908 - March 22, 1991

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

Vacation Language Learn Philosophy

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.'

Life Home Poetry Horizon American

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Wisdom Wise You Knowing

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.

Writing You Find Way Never Whatever

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.

Power Together Words Poetry Ideas

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

Vision You See Without Paid Bills

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

Poetry More Write Eat Little Almost

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.

Food Cake Black Farm Christmas Nut

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Food Abundance Way Same Eat Room

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?

Neighbor Damn Missed Class Never

Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

Friends Things Terrible Been Jews

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