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" was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Robert Penn Warren on Wikipedia.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.
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."
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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.
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
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