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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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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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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Everything seems an echo of something else.
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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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...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
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Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
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What is man but his passion?
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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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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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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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