[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into… — 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
America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract… — 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
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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