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....

But I don't know, in the end, what deserts, chasms, achievements, virtues, and beauties have to do with....

(The law) is like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There....

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

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....

No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can....

We all knew the great lesson of history I from reading it and they from living it. And the lesson is:....

But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with....