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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
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Guthrie
Kentucky
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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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History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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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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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)
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What is man but his passion?
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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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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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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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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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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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You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
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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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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 poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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For whatever you live is life.
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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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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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