"The image that fiction presents is purged of……" — Robert Penn Warren
"The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life."
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Robert Penn Warren
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76 Quotes by Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren has 76 quotes on this site.
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Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it…
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What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor…
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Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the…
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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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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about…
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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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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the…
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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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More Accidents Quotes
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
— Aristotle
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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