Wednesday, February 14, 2024
A Grandfather's Advice
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), "Old-Time Childhood in Kentucky," in his New and Selected Poems 1923-1985 (New York: Random House, 1985), pp. 45-46 (at 46):
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“Grandpa,”Here get = offspring.
I said, “what do you do, things being like this?” “All you can,”
He said, looking off through treetops, skyward. “Love
Your wife, love your get, keep your word, and
If need arises, die for what men die for. There aren’t
Many choices.
And remember that truth doesn’t always live in the number of voices.”
