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Robert Penn Warren Quotes
«For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
| About:
Autobiography,
Poetry,
Understanding
| Keywords:
hazardous, poem
«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.»
«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.»
«Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
| Keywords:
amusement, copulation, inexpensive, in the south, procure, procures, South, the South
«This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.»
«I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
«Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
