The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. poetry
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. poetry
Robert Penn Warren Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Apr 24, 1905
- Died: Sep 15, 1989
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 influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men 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.