Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

Robert Penn Warren's Popular Quotes

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

- Robert Penn Warren

For whatever you live is life.

- Robert Penn Warren

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

- Robert Penn Warren

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good…

- Robert Penn Warren

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

- Robert Penn Warren

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 i…

- Robert Penn Warren

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

- Robert Penn Warren

Everything seems an echo of something else.

- Robert Penn Warren

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. Histo…

- Robert Penn Warren