21 ordspråk av Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
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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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your 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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I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.
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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.
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past
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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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Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write
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Something is going to happen...
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
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The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; 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.
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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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