I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.” — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — 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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