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Robert Penn Warren Quotes

Robert Penn Warren quotes

American Novelist, Writer, Poet April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989

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For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where... Robert Penn Warren
It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something."And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge."And he said, "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. Robert Penn Warren
History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Robert Penn Warren
Lois looked edible, and you know it was tender all the way through, a kind of mystic combination of filet mignon and a Georgia peach aching for the tongue and ready to bleed gold. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them..."
You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking. Robert Penn Warren
In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting. Robert Penn Warren
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "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
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
Robert Penn Warren quote: "If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no..."
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater..."
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch..."
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. Robert Penn Warren
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. Robert Penn Warren
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. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have..."
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. Robert Penn Warren

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