Robert Penn Warren Quotes
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, 1905-1989, Writer, All the King's Men
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This old proverb, commonly uttered in Russia and Slavic countries, in part, explains why Russians, Serbs, and others of the area seem so mired in the past.
For centuries whites had dominated and abused the Blacks of South Africa. When the Black majority finally gained power, there were many calls for retribution and justice. However, under Mandela’s influence, South Africa made one of the most successful transitions of power to the majority who had been oppressed. The concentration on the future made South Africa the most successful country in Africa and a model for the world. See {633690} for another of his implementing statements of this principle.
She had been a major celebrity as an TV entertainer, and she then became a politician. However, her political opponents kept referring to her as an entertainer with the implication that that made her unqualified when she tried to run for the Russian presidency.
Bush, one of America’s least articulate Presidents was trying to convey that his dirty tricks and attacks on his opponent, John McCain, was over, and ended up with this comical tautology.
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
