Robert Penn Warren Quotes

"Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography."

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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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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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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.

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The poem is, then, a little myth of man's capacity for 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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