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Paul Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa.

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But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.

College, Hills, Leaves, Missing, Way, Writing

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?

Missed, Religious, School, Sunday, Use

Human life is too difficult for people.

Difficult, Human, Human Life, Life Is, People

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

Ordinary, Poetry, Power, Reading Poetry, Tough Skin

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

Writing, Rewriting, Rewritten

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

Horse, Children, Air, Smell, Horses

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