Quote by: Robert Penn Warren

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.


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Author Bio


  • NameRobert Penn Warren
  • DescriptionAmerican poet, novelist, and literary critic
  • BornApril 24, 1905
  • DiedSeptember 15, 1989
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Rome Prize; Bollingen Prize; National Medal Of Arts; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry; National Book Award