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Life Quotes by Robert Penn Warren
- The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
- Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves…
- 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 a jewel in…
- For whatever you live is life.
- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
- The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a…
- 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…
- You live through...that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle