Quotes of Robert Penn Warren

“ Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men) ”

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Philosophy

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. ”

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Poetry

“ Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake. ”

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Poetry

“ Beauty Is the fumetrack of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician ”

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Poetry

“ For what blessing may a man hope for but An immortality in The loving vigilance of death. ”

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Death

“ Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. ”

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Writing

“ you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summingup of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History. ”

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Time

“ Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ”

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Awfully

“ The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". ”

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Bard

“ Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ”

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Bard

“ The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". ”

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Bigot

“ We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ”

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Captive

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”

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Creation

“ I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric and about to blow a fuse. ”

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Combine

“ We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ”

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Convict

“ The past is always a rebuke to the present. ”

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Censure

“ Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ”

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Comment

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”

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Capacity

“ The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". ”

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Cowardly

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

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Curse

“ For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography. ”

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Divide

“ A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. ”

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Dispute

“ Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon likeMemory. I follow the soundless flicker,As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,Is momentarily defined in thePale wash, the rose-flush, of distance. ”

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Definite

“ If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. ”

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Deficient

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

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Drug

“ I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric and about to blow a fuse. ”

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Deadly

“ A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. ”

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Disappear

“ For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography. ”

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Deep

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

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Engineering

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

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“ Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men) ”

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. ”

“ Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake. ”

“ Beauty Is the fumetrack of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician ”

“ For what blessing may a man hope for but An immortality in The loving vigilance of death. ”

“ Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. ”

“ you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summingup of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History. ”

“ Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ”

“ The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". ”

“ Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ”

“ The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". ”

“ We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ”

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”

“ I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric and about to blow a fuse. ”

“ We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ”

“ The past is always a rebuke to the present. ”

“ Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ”

“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”

“ The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.". ”

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

“ For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography. ”

“ A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. ”

“ Heat lightning prowls, pranks the mountain horizon likeMemory. I follow the soundless flicker,As ridge after ridge, as outline of peak after peak,Is momentarily defined in thePale wash, the rose-flush, of distance. ”

“ If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. ”

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

“ I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric and about to blow a fuse. ”

“ A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. ”

“ For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography. ”

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”

“ I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism — that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything. ”