More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. — 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 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
This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship… — 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
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
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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