Robert Penn Warren

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Robert Penn Warren (24 April 1905 – 15 September 1989) tawu ngota penyair,novelis wawu kritikus sastra to Amerika, wawu tala ngotaliyo ta lopotihulo New Criticism. Tiyo olo tala ngota ta lopotihulo Fellowship of Southern Writers. Tiyo lololimo Penghargaan Pulitzer taawunu 1947 ode Novel All the King's Men (1946), lapata'o taawunu 1957wawu 1979, Penghargaan Pulitzer ode Puisi.

Lumadu

• Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"
  • Ngohuntuwa ta hepolulade hipohimontala hipololohe wolo uhepikilangiyo meyambo he'orasa limongoliyo... dila bo hemokalaja wolo u ma woluwo, dabo lebe-lebe ode u ma woluwo, hemobisala wolo u diila mowali bisalalo wawu layito oyiyintu, "Wolo patatiyo u he'orasawa latiya tomimbihu utiye?"
    • National Observer (6 February 1967)

• The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
  • Hilawo u molulade puisi yito odelo ta hemo'orasa mokohidu. Wonu kohide boyito ma hemo'opuyu, musi kahuwomu tiyo.
    • The New York Times (16 December 1969)

• More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
  • Emerson hihihewo ma'o ma helumodu'o to delomo sojara, sababu masa depan u helantobuliyo maa lowali masa lalu.
    • Acceptance speech for the 1970 National Medal for Literature, New York, New York (2 December 1970)

• I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
  • Ma ngohuntuwa tambati ilona'owa'u wawu ngohuntuwa u ma pilohutu'u, dabo moluladu u layito mowali uda'a. Uwito odelo ngongoto u diila mowali pelehiyo'u.
    • National Observer (12 March 1977)