Robert Penn Warren

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep. ↗

— 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

I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#gullibility #skepticism #men

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#men

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#know #money #most #observation #people

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 Warren

#been #done #first #i #kind

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

— Robert Penn Warren

#expect #glory #greater #hear #i

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 Warren

#capacity #end #in the end #life #light

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#grow #how #life #out #poems

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

— Robert Penn Warren

#autobiography #deepest #hazardous #part #poem