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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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Robert Penn Warren quote: "There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just..."
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage. Robert Penn Warren
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... Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't..."
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. Robert Penn Warren
Upon my return I found the call in my box. It was Anne's number, then Anne's voice on the wire, and, as always, the little leap and plunk in my heart like a frog jumping into a lily pool. With the ripples spreading round. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: " . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to..."
. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . . Robert Penn Warren
They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are only has meaning in relation to other people. Robert Penn Warren
Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to..."
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern..."
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "The past is always a rebuke to the present."
The past is always a rebuke to the present. Robert Penn Warren
He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be..."
Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "I longed to know the world's name."
I longed to know the world's name. Robert Penn Warren
And he said, 'Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren quote: "For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at..."
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren

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