Robert Penn Warren Quotes

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

In separateness only does love learn definition.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

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

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.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his 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.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men)

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician