How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

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• Robert Penn Warren:

  The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is

• Robert Penn Warren:

  I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

• Robert Penn Warren:

  For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobio

• Robert Penn Warren:

  Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are mos

• Willem de Kooning:

  The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

• Willem de Kooning:

  An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

• Willem de Kooning:

  Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas

• Willem de Kooning:

  My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very

• Willem de Kooning:

  The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point o

• Willem de Kooning:

  Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.