For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
- Robert Penn Warren
Poem, Deepest, Part, Hazardous
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
- Robert Penn Warren
Reagan, Nancy, Any, None
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.
- Robert Penn Warren
Poetry, Making, Which, In The End
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
- Robert Penn Warren
Like, Itch, Having, Annoying
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
- Robert Penn Warren
About, One Of The Things, Poets
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
- Robert Penn Warren
Poetry, Grow, How, Poems
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