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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1297 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Penn Warren (1905–89) |
| QUOTATION: | More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ROBERT PENN WARREN, speech upon receipt of the 1970 National Medal for Literature, New York City, December 2, 1970.—Transcript, p. 2. |
| SUBJECTS: | Past and future |
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