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

A Lucky American Childhood. On Creative Writing Dutton 1964. Life
Engle is often mistakenly credited with having founded the Iowa Writers' Workshop (an honor that more appropriately belongs to his predecessor Wilbur Schramm).

Paul Engle (October 12 1908 – March 22 1991) noted American poet editor teacher literary critic novelist and playwright.