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Famous Robert Penn Warren Quotes
“Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.”
“You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.”
“There is no country but the heart.”
“The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.”
“All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.”
“You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.”
“Everything seems an echo of something else.”
“I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.”
“For the truth is a terrible thing.”
“For whatever you live is life.”
“History is all explained by geography.”
“More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.”
“I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.”