Awful Responsibility Quotes by Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away…
• The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
• What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract…
• Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he…
• How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
• How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears…
• Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
• The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
• The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and…
• Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
• You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
• There is no country but the heart.

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