The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — 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
“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
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
You live through...that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Cass Mastern lived for a few years and in that time he learned that the world is all of one piece. He… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life. That is something to remember when you meet the old classmate who says,… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete Knowledge then He is Complete Non-Motion, which is Non-Life, which is Death.… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“I thought God cannot be Fullness of Being. For Life is Motion.----- For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic costs of the War and look at another kind of cost, a… — 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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