Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warrenwas an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Menand the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 April 1905
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
History is all explained by geography.
There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.
I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.
A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.
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.
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.