Robert Penn Warren - History Quotes

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

Robert Penn Warren

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

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

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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

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Robert Penn Warren

Go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

Robert Penn Warren