Robert Penn Warren Quotes about History

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

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.

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

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