A Poet Reflects

September 30, 2012 with 125 notes
        tags: poem. insight. life. Robert Penn Warren. light.

“And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see—it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life.”

—Robert Penn Warren, from “Formula of a Poem” in Saturday Review (March 22, 1958);
The quotation originally came from Robert Penn Warren’s acceptance address for the 1958 National Book Award for Promises: Poems 1954-1956.

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