Best Robert Penn Warren Sayings
- Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her… Annie
- For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines… Age
- [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 the… Awful
- And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or… Always Learn
- It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me… All
- That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet… Absolutely
- There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage. Garbage
- Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice.… Choice
- They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you… Any
- Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big… Big
- 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 globe except what's… All
- ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the… Box
- The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. Always Happens
- Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. Event
- If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. Accept
- Tell me a story of deep delight. Deep
- If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you. Changes
- Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the… Break
- History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that. History
- For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Attempt
- The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a… Capacity
- A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45… Age
- Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. Amusement
- We get very few of he true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind which become more and more… Brightness
- I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal,… Caught
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