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. -Robert Penn Warren

 

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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This quote is just one of 8 total Robert Penn Warren quotes in our collection. Robert Penn Warren is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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.

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A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, 'Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.' -Robert Penn Warren
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

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

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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. -Robert Penn Warren
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

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