When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.
Robert Penn WarrenTo be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
Robert Penn WarrenFor what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn WarrenYou have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
Robert Penn Warren