Robert Penn Warren Quote

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.


Foreword, Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices — A New Version (1979)


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...

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...

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...

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...