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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. - Robert Warren Quotes

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal. - Robert Warren Quotes

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

Evil

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

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

I'd give him a grade of C-plus or B-minus overall. - Robert Warren Quotes

I'd give him a grade of C-plus or B-minus overall.

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 Warren 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.

American Novelist Life

In a lot of cases . . . the CEO does get a disproportionate amount of credit. - Robert Warren Quotes

In a lot of cases . . . the CEO does get a disproportionate amount of credit.

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. - Robert Warren Quotes

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,

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.""

Poet

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

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

American Novelist

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past - Robert Warren Quotes

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past

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