Best Robert Penn Warren Quotes
- History is all explained by geography. All
- More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. Becomes
- I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Any
- I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't… Always First
- In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out… Autobiography
- What is man but his passion? Enthusiasm
- This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event… Affirm
- I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not… Barn
- Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed… Agent
- If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid… All
- Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em… Boys
- Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this. Ever Told
- ...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. Die
- Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? Afraid
- The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. Damnation
- I longed to know the world's name. Inspirational
- It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another. Defect
- Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and… Century
- The past is always a rebuke to the present. History
- ...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like… Ache
- Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There… All
- 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 him.… All
- Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. Real
- Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure. Amusement
- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. Capacity
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