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.
More Quotes from Robert Penn Warren:
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.Robert Penn Warren
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn Warren
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.
Robert Penn Warren
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn Warren
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn Warren
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.
Robert Penn Warren
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