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> [“(...) the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint of the water between the little banks, under the sky, and see the cow standing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-train-goes-fast-and-is-going-fast-when-it-crosses-a-little/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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## More by Robert Penn Warren

> [If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/if-you-are-an-idealist-it-does-not-matter-what-you-do-or-what-goes-on/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-child-comes-home-and-the-parent-puts-the-hooks-in-him-the-old-man/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-poem-is-a-little-myth-of-man-s-capacity-of-making-life-meaningful/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/there-is-nothing-more-alone-than-being-in-a-car-at-night-in-the-rain/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/no-the-boss-corrected-i-m-not-a-lawyer-i-know-some-law-but-i-m-not-a/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [ \[A\]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/a-nd-soon-now-we-shall-go-out-of-the-house-and-go-into-the-convulsion/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/those-were-the-ones-which-would-turn-loose-their-grip-on-the-branch/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/sometimes-sleep-gets-to-be-a-serious-and-complete-thing-you-stop/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/he-thought-of-night-coming-on-he-thought-of-the-loneliness-of-tonight/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/i-reckon-i-am-a-smart-aleck-but-it-is-just-a-way-to-pass-the-time/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-poem-is-not-a-thing-we-see-it-is-rather-a-light-by-which-we-may/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-asking-and-the-answering-which-history-provides-may-help-us-to/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/process-as-process-is-neither-morally-good-nor-morally-bad-we-may/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/the-end-of-man-is-knowledge-but-there-is-one-thing-he-can-t-know-he/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

> [For the truth is a terrible thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/for-the-truth-is-a-terrible-thing/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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