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For whatever you live is life.

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
Whatever
Live
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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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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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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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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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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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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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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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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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 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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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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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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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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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
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What is man but his passion?
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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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