American - Novelist | April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren
PoetryEnoughYouWriteAnnoying
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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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
LifePoetryGrowOutYourPoems
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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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
MeWritingYouGloryExpectGreater
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
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