Robert Penn Warren Quotes
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This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises ...
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
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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.
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
