In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting. — 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
“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
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share
“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
“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
[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
“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
“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
“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
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share
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
Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share
