More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island… — 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
“So there are two you's, the one you create by loving and the one the beloved creates by loving you. The farther… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“What happened was this: I got an image in my head that never got out. We see a great many things and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, and she, From… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“But I don't know, in the end, what deserts, chasms, achievements, virtues, and beauties have to do with love. We can love… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“[F]or when you get in love you are made all over again. The person who loves you has picked you out of… — 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… — 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
![“[F]or when you get in love you are made all over again. The person who loves you has picked you out of the great mass of uncreated clay which is humanity to make something out of, and the poor lumpish clay which is you wants to find out what it has been made into. But at the same time, you, in the…” quote by Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a06/robert-penn-warren-2118_love_f-or-when-you-get-in-love-you-are-made-a_2504287.jpg)
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