A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect. Robert Penn Warren More Quotes by Robert Penn Warren More Quotes From Robert Penn Warren There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. Robert Penn Warren car rain night Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen. Robert Penn Warren girl summer dream If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. Robert Penn Warren waiting want long You don’t choose a story, it chooses you. Robert Penn Warren stories Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this. Robert Penn Warren If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. Robert Penn Warren real goes-on doe Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? Robert Penn Warren handle dying ifs For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go. Robert Penn Warren growing-up country blood 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." Robert Penn Warren poetry messages want I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without. Robert Penn Warren pain done writing In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting. Robert Penn Warren knitting spring thinking I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Robert Penn Warren nancy glory writing We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? Robert Penn Warren prisoner history For whatever you live is life. Robert Penn Warren For the truth is a terrible thing. Robert Penn Warren terrible-things truth-is terrible The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. Robert Penn Warren poetry light may All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. Robert Penn Warren capture essence writing More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. Robert Penn Warren past I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. Robert Penn Warren real hurt book If a man knew how to live he would never die. Robert Penn Warren dies men life
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