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.
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.