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

#novel #philosophy #pulitzer-prize #humor

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#happenstance #luck #need #privilege #men

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#memory #men

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#life

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#history #original-sin #forgiveness

Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#contingency #nature #necessity #poetry #beauty

For whatever you live is life. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#life

And he said, 'Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#incorrigibility #smart-aleck #men

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#visualization #change