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Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren

Birthname

Birthday: April 24, 1905

Death: September 15, 1989

Educated At: Clarksville Senior High School, Vanderbilt University, University Of Oxford, Yale University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist, Literary Critic, Novelist, Writer, Poet

Spouse: Eleanor Clark

Total quotes: 3

“I wondered if ever my heart would beat again, / As I wandered the moonlight’s dream, past pleasure or past pain.”

— Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry

Tagged: Poetry, Empty, Tired, Numb, emotions

“[On Lincoln] No man has ever distinguished more carefully between 'is' and 'ought to be.'”

— Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War

Tagged: Pragmatism

“Fellows like Willie Stark are born outside of luck, good or bad, and luck, which is what about makes you and me what we are, doesn't have anything to do with them, for they are what they are from the time they first kick in the womb until they end. And if that is the case, then their life history is a process of discovering what they really are, and not, as for you and me, sons of luck, a process of becoming what luck makes us.”

— Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

Tagged: Life, Luck, Birth

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