When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.
Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this. - Robert Penn Warren
Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.
- Robert Penn Warren
For whatever you live is life. - Robert Penn Warren
For whatever you live is life.
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. - Robert Penn Warren
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
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
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…
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
You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
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
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…
Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good. - Robert Penn Warren
Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
Everything seems an echo of something else. - Robert Penn Warren
Everything seems an echo of something else.
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
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…
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