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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it!...

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it!...

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming...

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming...

Ambition never comes to an end.

Ambition never comes to an end.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our...

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our...

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live...

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live...