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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
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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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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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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn Warren
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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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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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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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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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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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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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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If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.
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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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What is man but his passion?
Robert Penn Warren
