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Tell me a story of deep delight.

Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Guthrie
Kentucky
Delight
Deep
Story
Tell
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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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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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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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch 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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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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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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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.
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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
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What is man but his passion?
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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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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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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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History is all explained by geography.
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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
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