“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.” IdeasTogetherPoetryLanguageEmotionPoetOrdinaryToughSkinsRaisedPoetry IsDelicateReading PoetryPoetry By Famous PoetsPoetry By PoetsPoetry ReadingTough Skin Author:Paul Engle
“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
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.” PoetryLanguagePoetOrdinaryRaisedPoetry IsDelicateReading PoetryPower Of LanguageLanguage And PowerPoetry By PoetsPoetry ReadingTough Skin Author:Paul Engle
“Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.” GriefWrittenPoetPagesDelightRageAbstractVerses Book:A Woman Unashamed: And Other Poems Source: A Woman Unashamed: And Other Poems
“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.” ArtMadeSchoolBornGonePoetMastersPainterWhy NotArchitectInstructionComposerCornSculptorsHybridArt School Author:Paul Engle
