21 ordspråk av Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren föddes den April 24th 1905 och dog den 15 September 1989 - US writer
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 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. |
| For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. |
| For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. |
| How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. |
| How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. |
| I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past |
| Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. |
| Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write |
| Something is going to happen... |
| Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. |
| 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. |
| 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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