you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History. - Robert Penn Warren
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. - Robert Penn Warren
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake. - Robert Penn Warren
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. - Robert Penn Warren
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. - Robert Penn Warren
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something(All The King's Men) - Robert Penn Warren