Paul Engle Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, House, Automobile

• 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.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Children, Air

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

• The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Father, Firsts

• 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.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Writing, Years

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.154, University of Iowa Press

• I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Survival, Age

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