Robert Penn Warren Quotes

“I remember distinctly the retarded, inexorable grind of the gravel under the iron tires, a sound that seemed to declare some irreversible process in which we were trapped, as though we were coffee beans dropped in a coffee grinder as big as the world.”
― Robert Penn Warren, A Place to Come To

“I don’t care about anybody being handsome", she said, "but I never did go for anybody that reminded me of a box of spilled spaghetti. All elbows and dry rattle.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“…they always gave good reasons for the things they did, and then when they got old they lost their reasons for doing anything and sat on the bench in front of the harness shop and had words for the reasons other people had but had forgotten what the reasons were.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Los verdaderos escritores son aquellos que quieren escribir, necesitan escribir, tienen que escribir.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“Robert Penn Warren, who watched the [Jefferson Davis] monument's construction as a child, later recalled the bemusement he felt as this "immobile thrust of concrete" soared above his native soil. Remembrance of the Confederacy, he wrote, "had never been of burning importance in Guthrie, where to a certain number of contemporary citizens the Civil War seemed to have been fought for the right to lynch without legal interference.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War