Quotes by : Robert Penn Warren

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench....

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust....

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not....

It is hard to remember.”“Remember what?”“All that goes into the making of any one moment we live.....

Let us leave in suspension such debates about the economic costs of the War and look at another kind....

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may....

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing....

In the last analysis, be always of whatever truth you would live.For fire flames but in the heart of....

We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessary…But....