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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
Journalist
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Guthrie
Kentucky
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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To be an American is not...a matter of blood it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
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My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.
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But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.
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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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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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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
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You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
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A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
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In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.
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They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.
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That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.
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There was nothing particularly wrong with them they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
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If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
Robert Penn Warren
For whatever you live is life.
Robert Penn Warren
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
Robert Penn Warren
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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