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Robert Penn Warren

"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed 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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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"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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"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
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"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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"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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"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
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