Quotes by : Robert Penn Warren

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

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little....

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and....

...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's....

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

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

The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He sees....

So there are two you's, the one you create by loving and the one the beloved creates by loving you. The....

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.....

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity....