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.
Source: In Life, 28 May 1956.
-- Paul Engle, (Oct 12 1908-1991), US poet, author; His award-winning writings include Embrace: Selected Love Poems, 1969 and Who's Afraid?, 1962.