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Robert Penn Warren Quotes

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Everything seems an echo of something else  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) ... a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) I longed to know the world’s name  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal’s own hand and every man is suicide. If a man knew how to live he would never die  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn’t real anyway  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel... Not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, what do I really feel about this?  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) 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  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) You can’t make bricks without straw, and most of the time all the straw you got is secondhand from the cowpen  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don’t mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don’t have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) 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  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) 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  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) 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  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) 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  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) ... the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it, would save him  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) Goodness... You got to make it out of badness... Because there isn’t anything else to make it out of  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes) There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage  (Robert Penn Warren Quotes)
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