Author: Robert Penn Warren

Cites

• Edmund Spenser (1)
  • IN: World Enough and Time (1959) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So oft as I with state of present time, The image of the antique world compare, When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare, Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance of his course, Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Let none then blame me, if in discipline Of vertue and of ciuill vses lore, I doe not forme them to the common line Of present dayes, which are corrupted sore, But to the antique vse, which was of yore, When good was onely for it selfe desyred, And all men sought their owne, and none no more; When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred Dread Souerayne Goddesse, that doest highest sit In seate of iudgement, in th'Almighties stead, And with magnificke might and wondrous wit Doest to thy people righteous doome aread, That furthest Nations filles with awfull dread, Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall, That dare discourse of so diuine a read, As thy great iustice praysed ouer all: The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall.
    FROM: Prologue of the Fifth Booke of the Faerie Queen Contayning the Legend of Artegall or of Justice, (1596), Poem, UK
• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: All the King's Men (1974) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
    FROM: La Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, III, (1472), Poem, Italy

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• Boris Fishman (1)
  • IN: Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For West is where we all plan to go some day... It is where you go to grow up with the country.
    FROM: All the King's Men, (1946), Novel, US
• Urban Waite (1)
  • IN: Sometimes the Wolf (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You know, sometimes -- for a long time at a stretch -- it's like it hadn't happened. Not to me. Maybe to somebody else, but not to me. Then I remember, and when I first remember I say, no, it could not have happened to me.
    FROM: All the King's Men, (1946), Novel, US
• Greg Iles (2)
  • IN: Mississippi Blood (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For the truth is a terrible thing. You dabble your foot in it and it is nothing. But you walk a little further and you feel it pull you like an undertow or a whirlpool. First there is the slow pull so steady and gradual you scarcely notice it, then the acceleration, then the dizzy whirl and plunge into darkness. For there is a blackness of truth, too. They say it is a terrible thing to fall into the Grace of God. I am prepared to believe that.
    FROM: All the King's Men, (1946), Novel, US
  • IN: Natchez Burning (2014) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: For nothing is lost, nothing is ever lost. There is always the clue, the canceled check, the smear of lipstick, the footprint in the canna bed, the condom on the park path, the twitch in the old wound, the baby shoes dipped in bronze, the taint in the blood stream. And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us.
    FROM: All the King's Men, (1946), Novel, US
• Kristopher Dukes (1)
  • IN: The Sworn Virgin (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The past is always a rebuke to the present.
    FROM: NULL, (1956), NULL, US
• John Burnside (1)
  • IN: Ashland & Vine (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.
    FROM: All The King's Men, (1946), Novel, US