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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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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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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There was nothing particularly wrong with them they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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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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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
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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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History is all explained by geography.
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
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If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.
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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
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History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
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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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