Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn WarrenIn America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.
Robert Penn WarrenFor what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren