Robert Penn Warren Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Damnation, World

  "Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development". Book by Chris Maser, 1999.

• 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.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

  Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, James A. Grimshaw (1998). “Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence”, p.15, University of Missouri Press

• The past is always a rebuke to the present.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Past, History, Rebuke

  Robert Penn Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers (1980). “Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978”, Random House (NY)

• A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Distance, Past, History

  Robert Penn Warren (1977). “A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season”, University of Alabama Press

• History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Melodrama, Ifs

  Robert Penn Warren (2015). “The Legacy of the Civil War”, p.33, U of Nebraska Press

• We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

  Robert Penn Warren

  History, Prisoner

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