“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.” WayWritingFoundMissingCollegePoetHills Author:Paul Engle
“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.” LittlesCountryOpinionSceneConstantContraryHillsLandscapeFlatsPoolRollingEasternHandsomeImaginativeCrowdedIowaCreeksTimberSmall ChangesCatfishRolling Hills Author:Paul Engle
“The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.” WritingYearsStillsCoursesPoorEmotionToo MuchClothesHorseHillsBrutalDoubtfulBarns Book:A Lucky American Childhood Source: A Lucky American Childhood