Paul Engle Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 12, 1908 - March 22, 1991

Topics

PowerTogetherWordsPoetryIdeas

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeWordsMeBookBackWay

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.

John Katzman

TimeRememberStudentTeachersSaw

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

John Keegan

GentlemanAmericanNaturalEnglish

Fighting at home does bring pressure - of course it does. But I've always thrived on that.

Michael Bisping

HomePressureFightingAlwaysBring

There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.

Stephen Graham

CharacterMePlayHimSomething

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

Tom Hanks

ChangePerspectiveDoctorSayingBad

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

Ron Wyden

LawObservationHumanAbilityTrack

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

Michiel Huisman

GreatWorldThinkWillMoreI Think

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

Michael Koryta

LoveTimeDoorWritingStoryYou

The real fans do not just admire the star of their choice, they identify with him or her, while the star, unlike Joan Crawford, comes to need the fans' love, admiration, and constant interest.

Michael Korda

LoveChoiceAdmireNeedRealHim

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

GreatRestYouBadMannersFlattery

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Jose Bergamin

WomenTodayWomanManMistakeBeing

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