Tell me a story of deep delight.
Interpretation
This quote invites the reader to seek joy and depth in storytelling.
Robert Penn Warren's quote emphasizes the transformative power of storytelling, suggesting that narratives can provide profound joy and deeper understanding of human experiences. By engaging with stories that resonate with delight, we can connect with emotions, explore complex themes, and find meaning in both personal and shared narratives.
In practice
A writer might use this quote in an interview to explain their passion for crafting joyful stories.
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youβve 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.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
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 and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
So little time we live in Time,_x000D_ _x000D_ And we learn all so painfully,_x000D_ _x000D_ That we may spare this hour's term_x000D_ _x000D_ To practice for Eternity.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they can't express, and it hurts me. So I go home and burnish it and polish it and weld it to a rhythmic frame, make the dull colors gleam, mute the garish artificiality to pastels, so it doesn't hurt any more: that's my poem. I know what they want to say, and I say it for them.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
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