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Robert Penn Warren
The 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...
The urge to...
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...
What is a...
What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...
How do poems...
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Source: Poetry Is a Kind of...
Poets, we know,...
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...
The end of...
The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...
Most writers are...
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...
I think the...
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or...
I've been to...
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...
A young man's...
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...
The 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...
The urge to...
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...
What is a...
What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...
How do poems...
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Source: Poetry Is a Kind of...
Poets, we know,...
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...
The end of...
The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...
Most writers are...
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...
I think the...
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or...
I've been to...
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...
A young man's...
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...