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Robert Penn Warren Quotes & Sayings

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31 entries tagged including 15 subtopics.
Last updated Oct 2023

Robert Penn Warren Topics

Writers
Ambition
Youth
Autobiography
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Evil
Identity
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Expectation
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You live through...that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History.

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I turned around to face the reality, which was not something caught in the ice of the mind but was something now flushed, feline, lethal, and electric...

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We get very few of he true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind which become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality but, year by year, drew off another veil to expose a meaning which we had only dimly surmised at first. Very probably the last veil will not be removed, for there are not enough years, but the brightness of the image increases and our conviction increases that the brightness is meaning, or the legend of meaning, and without the image our lives would be nothing except an old piece of film rolled on a spool and thrown into a desk drawer of unanswered letters.

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They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are only has meaning in relation to other people.

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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure.

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Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

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Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

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The past is always a rebuke to the present.

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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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I longed to know the world's name.

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A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

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It is a human defect, to try to know one's self by the self of another.

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

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For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

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A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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