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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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Nobody
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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 submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.
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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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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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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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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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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
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History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
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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 exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.
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If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
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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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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
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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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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
Robert Penn Warren
For whatever you live is life.
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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.
Robert Penn Warren
