This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality…

Quote by Robert Penn Warren

Topics: Myths Quotes, Poetry Quotes

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

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

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

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

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

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing...

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

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

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...

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

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

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

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

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

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

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things...