Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

Quote by Paul Engle

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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere....

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere....

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved...

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved...