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I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
— Robert Penn Warren
There is no country but the heart.
— Robert Penn Warren
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
— Robert Penn Warren
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
— Robert Penn Warren
You don't choose a story, it chooses you.
— Robert Penn Warren
A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
— Robert Penn Warren
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.
— Robert Penn Warren
The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
— Robert Penn Warren
What is love?/One name for it is knowledge.
— Robert Penn Warren
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
— Robert Penn Warren
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
— Robert Penn Warren
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
— Robert Penn Warren
History is all explained by geography.
— Robert Penn Warren
It is a human defectto try to know one's self by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren
You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.
— Robert Penn Warren
What is man but his passion?
— Robert Penn Warren
Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
— Robert Penn Warren
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
— Robert Penn Warren
The Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife ...
— Robert Penn Warren
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
— Robert Penn Warren
Everything seems an echo of something else.
— Robert Penn Warren
And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace
— Robert Penn Warren
In separateness only does love learn definition.
— Robert Penn Warren
I longed to know the world's name.
— Robert Penn Warren
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
— Robert Penn Warren
So little time we live in Time,And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity. — Robert Penn Warren
A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
— Robert Penn Warren
For whatever you live is life.
— Robert Penn Warren
Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime. But
— Robert Penn Warren
For the truth is a terrible thing.
— Robert Penn Warren
Goodness ... You got to make it out of badness ... Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
— Robert Penn Warren
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
— Robert Penn Warren
She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl.
— Robert Penn Warren
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
— Robert Penn Warren
Dyingshucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? — Robert Penn Warren
You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
— Robert Penn Warren
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
— Robert Penn Warren
A friend of your youth is the only friend you ever have..
— Robert Penn Warren
But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.
— Robert Penn Warren
And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's
— Robert Penn Warren
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
— Robert Penn Warren
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.
— Robert Penn Warren
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[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.
— Robert Penn Warren
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
— Robert Penn Warren
You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.
— Robert Penn Warren
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
— Robert Penn Warren
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
— Robert Penn Warren
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
— Robert Penn Warren
To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an ideaand history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren
For everything there is a season / But there is the dream / Of a season past all seasons.
— Robert Penn Warren
But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.
— Robert Penn Warren
For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality in
The loving vigilance of death. — Robert Penn Warren
Tell me a story of deep delight.
— Robert Penn Warren
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
— Robert Penn Warren
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
— Robert Penn Warren
If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it ... if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
— Robert Penn Warren
