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Quotes from Love's Voice — Robert Penn Warren

1905–1989

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What glass unwinking gives our trust
Its image back, what echo names
The names we hurl at namelessness?

Love's Voice (1935)

For, no: not faith by fable lives,
But from the faith the fable springs
— It never is the song that gives
Tongue life, it is the tongue that sings;
And sings the song.

Love's Voice (1935)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Penn Warren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.