He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Robert Penn Warren
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More Quotes By Robert Penn Warren
  1. Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something( All The King's Men)

  2. Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

  3. The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

  4. BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician

  5. And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

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