[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“It is hard to remember.” “Remember what?” “All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. There are things… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“We all knew the great lesson of history; I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is: it… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“For example. But I cannot give you an example. It was not so much any one example, any one event, which I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“All items listed above belong in the world In which all things are continuous, And are parts of the original dream which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
[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… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
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