21 ordspråk av Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren föddes den 24 april 1905 och dog den 15 september 1989 - US writer
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

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.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

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.

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

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 in social engineering will solve everything.

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