Robert Penn Warren's Quotes
Born: 1905-04-24
Profession: Novelist
Nation: American
Biography of 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.
Tags: End, Life, PoetryFor what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Tags: Attempt, Deepest, PoemI don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Tags: Expect, Hear, WritingI'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.
Tags: Done, Pain, WritingPoets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Tags: Money, Poets, SensitiveThe urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Tags: Enough, Poetry, Write