"He has fled like electricity down the telegraph wires into

prairies of distance where the single bird sits

small and black against the saffron sky,

and is itself"

 

from He Has Fled

            

Robert Penn Warren

 

 

 

 

" We must learn to live in the world."

 

from Loss, of Perhaps Love,

in Our World of Contingency

 

Robert Penn Warren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"All things lean to you, and some are

Trying to tell you something, though of some

The heart is too full for speech"

 

from Trying to Tell You Something

 

Robert Penn Warren