Quote by Robert Penn Warren

““. . . the Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife. . .””

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If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

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“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…

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[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…

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“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax,…

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“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get…

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“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the…

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I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

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The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

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The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…

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