“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
“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
“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
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
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — 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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
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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