Quotes by : Robert Penn Warren

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

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

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

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an....

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....

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as....

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