Robert Penn Warren Quotes About Past

• 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)

• If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Past, Burden, Accepting

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• La realidad no es una función del acontecimiento como acontecimiento, sino de la relación de ese acontecimiento con los acontecimientos pasados y futuros.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Past, Reality, Events

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Robert Penn Warren

  Anterior

  Robert Penn Warren's Acceptance speech for the 1970 National Medal for Literature, New York City, New York, December 2, 1970.

• Esto no es sorprendente, porque, como sabemos, la realidad no es una función del acontecimiento como acontecimiento, sino de la relación de ese acontecimiento con los acontecimientos pasados y futuros. Parece que nos encontramos ante una paradoja: que la realidad de un acontecimiento, que no es real en sí mismo, surge de otros acontecimientos que tampoco son reales en sí mismos. Pero esto no hace sino afirmar lo que debemos afirmar: que la dirección lo es todo. Y sólo en la medida en que nos damos cuenta de ello vivimos, pues nuestra propia identidad depende de este principio.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Amor, Vida, Creer

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.342, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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