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Robert Penn Warren [1905-1989] American

Rank: 107
Novelist, Poet

Robert Penn Warren was 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.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.	Poetry	101
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.	Poetry	102
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.		103
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.		104
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.	Poetry	105
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.		106
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.		107

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