Robert Penn Warren Quote

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.


Acceptance speech for the 1970 National Medal for Literature, New York, New York (2 December 1970)


More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.