The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — 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
Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to… — 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
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
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of… — 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 heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around… — 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
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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