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Robert Penn Warren quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There is no country but the heart. There is no country but the heart.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: You don't choose a story, it chooses you. You don't choose a story, it chooses you.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: What is love?/One name for it is knowledge. What is love?/One name for it is knowledge.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. 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 quotes: The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that. History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: History is all explained by geography. History is all explained by geography.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: It is a human defectto try to know one's self by the self of another. It is a human defect
to try to know one's self by the self of another.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: 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 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 quotes: What is man but his passion? What is man but his passion?
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this. Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. 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 quotes: The Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife ... The Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife ...
Robert Penn Warren quotes: We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Everything seems an echo of something else. Everything seems an echo of something else.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace
Robert Penn Warren quotes: In separateness only does love learn definition. In separateness only does love learn definition.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: I longed to know the world's name. I longed to know the world's name.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: So little time we live in Time,And we learn all so painfully,That we may spare this hour's termTo practice for Eternity. 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 quotes: A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect. A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: For whatever you live is life. For whatever you live is life.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime. But Any act of pure perception is a feat, and if you don't believe it, try it sometime. But
Robert Penn Warren quotes: For the truth is a terrible thing. For the truth is a terrible thing.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Goodness ... You got to make it out of badness ... Because there isn't anything else to make it out of. Goodness ... You got to make it out of badness ... Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: The past is always a rebuke to the present. The past is always a rebuke to the present.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl. She lifted her sewing and bit off the thread in the way women do to make your flesh crawl.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Dyingshucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?
Robert Penn Warren quotes: You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of. 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 quotes: Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: A friend of your youth is the only friend you ever have.. A friend of your youth is the only friend you ever have..
Robert Penn Warren quotes: But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's 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 quotes: The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: [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. [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 quotes: How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking. You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage. There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: 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. 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 quotes: To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an ideaand history is the image of that idea. To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea
and history is the image of that idea.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: For everything there is a season / But there is the dream / Of a season past all seasons. For everything there is a season / But there is the dream / Of a season past all seasons.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down. But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death. For what blessing may a man hope for but
An immortality in
The loving vigilance of death.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Tell me a story of deep delight. Tell me a story of deep delight.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. 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 quotes: If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it ... if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you. 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 quotes: If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head. If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.
Robert Penn Warren quotes: If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

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