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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, What do I really feel about this?
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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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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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History is all explained by geography.
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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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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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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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What is man but his passion?
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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