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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
Geography
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History

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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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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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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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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Tell me a story of deep delight.
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History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
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It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
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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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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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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
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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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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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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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What is man but his passion?
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You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
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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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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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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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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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That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.
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