Not who you're looking for? Others named Robert Penn Warren: American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
“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."”
“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.”
“Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.”
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
“Everything seems an echo of something else.”
“In separateness only does love learn definition.”
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