"There is no country but the heart." — Robert Penn Warren
"There is no country but the heart."
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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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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
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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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The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
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