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Robert Penn Warrenwas 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.
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Robert Penn Warrenwas 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 literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King’s Menand the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
7 Quotes by Robert Penn Warren
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
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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 WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
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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 WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
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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.
Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)
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I don’t expect you’ll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Robert Penn WarrenAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)