"Perhaps he had to be close in order……" — Robert Penn Warren
"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 Life. And not merely a delightful excercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life."
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Robert Penn Warren
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76 Quotes by Robert Penn Warren
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the…
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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There is no country but the heart.
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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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