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Robert Penn Warren Quotes
Page 1 of 1Robert Penn Warren
April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist
|  I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. | | For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. | | The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. | | 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. | | How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. | | 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. | | Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. |
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