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There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet. — Allen Tate

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight. — Allen Tate

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain ... — Allen Tate

Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus:
For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm. — Allen Tate

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. — Allen Tate

I have felt darkness lead me by the hand
Over the hill to greet the singing dawn ... — Allen Tate

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. — Allen Tate

Men cannot live forever
But they must die forever ... — Allen Tate

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly. — Allen Tate

I say that what one loves is best:
The midnight fastness of the heart. — Allen Tate

We know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues. — Allen Tate

My darling boy whom I shall never know,
My son, I love you in my deepest fears ... — Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. — Allen Tate

Last night I fled until I came
To streets where leaking casements dripped
Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
A nervous window bled. — Allen Tate

The poet is he who fights on the passionate
Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
Is defeated it is hard to say who wins ... — Allen Tate

Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. — Allen Tate

So the dubbed conceit
Played nursery of cheat
To clear the I of sleet ... — Allen Tate

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. — Allen Tate

Row after row with strict impunity
The headstones yield their names to the element,
The wind whirrs without recollection ... — Allen Tate

Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for. — Allen Tate

The Spring I seek is in a new face only. — Allen Tate

Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive. — Allen Tate

We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying. — Allen Tate

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age. — Allen Tate

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. — Allen Tate

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. — Allen Tate

The twilight is long fingers and black hair. — Allen Tate

I had kept opaque
Down deeper than the canyons undersea
The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
Nobody saw; not seen even by me ... — Allen Tate

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. — Allen Tate

I thought I heard the dark pounding its head
On a rock, crying: Who are the dead? — Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. — Allen Tate

So face with calm that heritage
And earn contempt before the age. — Allen Tate

Men expect too much, do too little. — Allen Tate

What was I saying? An Egyptian king
Once touched long fingers, which are not anything. — Allen Tate

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate

All the sea-gods are dead.
You, Venus, come home
To your salt maidenhead ... — Allen Tate

Death's long anabasis. — Allen Tate

Our loss put six feet under ground
Is measured by the magnolia's root;
Our gain's the intellectual sound
Of death's feet round a weedy tomb. — Allen Tate

The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale ... — Allen Tate

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. — Allen Tate

Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill.
The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face
Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill. — Allen Tate

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
In late December before the fire's daze
Punished by crimes of which I would be quit. — Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. — Allen Tate

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet. — Allen Tate

Let us begin to understand the argument.
There is a solution to everything: Science. — Allen Tate

In the cold morning the rested street stands up
To greet the clerk who saunters down the world. — Allen Tate

The torrent of the reaching shade
Broke shadow into all its parts,
What then had been of shadow made
Found exigence in fits and starts ... — Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. — Allen Tate

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! — Allen Tate