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Robert Penn Warren

"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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"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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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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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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Robert Penn Warren
"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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Robert Penn Warren
"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."
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Robert Penn Warren
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
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"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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Robert Penn Warren
"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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"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
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