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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, critic, teacher > Robert Penn Warren
The urge to...
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Source: In NY Times, 16 Dec 1969.
-- Robert Penn Warren, (Apr 24 1905-1989), US novelist, poet, critic, teacher; He was best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of traditional, rural values; first U.S. poet laureate, 1986.