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