Robert Penn Warren

Writing in the Saturday Review, Dickey suggests Warren’s depth rather than his range should be celebrated. “[Warren] is direct, scathingly honest, and totally serious about what he feels,” Dickey begins. “He plunges as though compulsively into the largest of subjects: those that seem to cry out for capitalization and afflatus and, more often than not in the work of many poets, achieve only the former. ... He is a poet of enormous courage, with a highly individual intelligence.” But above all, concludes Dickey, Robert Penn Warren “looks, and refuses to look away. ... [He] wounds deeply; he strikes in at blood-level and gut-level, with all the force and authority of time, darkness, and distance themselves, and of the Nothingness beyond nothingness, which may even be God.”

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

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Robert Penn Warren

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Thank you

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.
Robert Penn Warren