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All Quotes by author - Robert Penn Warren

" For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. "

" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "

" I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. "

" 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. "

" Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. "

" 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. "

" The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. "

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