"For what is a #poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒ #RobertPennWarren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic, #DOTD 15 September 1989. #Poetry #Literature
"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
#RobertPennWarren #AlltheKingsMen #LiteraryQuotes
"didie" means "diaper"
Author of the Day: Robert Penn Warren — Power, Poetry, and Politics! ✍️👑📚
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#RobertPennWarren #AllTheKingsMen #AuthorOfTheDay #SouthernGothic #PulitzerPrize #LiteraryLegends #ClassicReads #Bookstagram #AmericanLiterature #PowerAndPolitics
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...
✒ #RobertPennWarren, American novelist (All the King's Men), poet, and literary critic, was #BOTD 24 April 1905. #Poetry #Literature
edit to clarify I meant #allthekingsmen by #robertpennwarren.
🔴 #1962 #arthurkopit 's play "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" premieres in NYC
🔴 #1978 #iralevin 's "Deathtrap" premieres in NYC
🔴 #1984 Pulitzer Prize winner #robertpennwarren is named the 1st US poet laureate
#todayinhistory
#february26
#booksky
#ComingUpOnTCM
ALL THE KING'S MEN (1949) Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Dir.: Robert Rossen 5:00 PM PT
A backwoods politician rises to the top, only to become corrupted by power.
1h 49m | Drama | TV-PG
#TCM #TCMParty #RobertPennWarren
