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Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: There is a calm for you where men

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Punctilious abyss, the yawn of spaceCome once a

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: For intellect is a mansion where waste is

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus:For Love,

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Experience means conflict, our natures being what they

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: I have felt darkness lead me by the

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: We know the particular poem, not what it

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Men cannot live foreverBut they must die forever

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: But we shall not know the world by

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: I say that what one loves is best:The

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: We know our endA packet of worm-seed, a

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: My darling boy whom I shall never know,My

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: What is the poem, after it is written?

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Last night I fled until I cameTo streets

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The poet is he who fights on the

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Antiquity breached mortality with myths.Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: So the dubbed conceitPlayed nursery of cheatTo clear

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The only real evidence that any critic may

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Struck in the wet mireFour thousand leagues from

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The Spring I seek is in a new

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect diveTo

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: We are afraid that we have not lived.We

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: But in our age the appeal to authority

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: In a manner of speaking, the poem is

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Culture is the study of perfection, and the

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: I had kept opaqueDown deeper than the canyons

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: How does one happen to write a poem:

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: I thought I heard the dark pounding its

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Other psychological theories say a good deal about

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: So face with calm that heritageAnd earn contempt

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Men expect too much, do too little.

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: What was I saying? An Egyptian kingOnce touched

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Poets, in their way, are practical men; they

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: All the sea-gods are dead.You, Venus, come homeTo

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Death's long anabasis.

Death's long anabasis. — Allen Tate

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Our loss put six feet under groundIs measured

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The dusk runs down the lane driven like

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Peering, I heard the hooves come down the

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Therefore with idle hands and head I sitIn

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Let us begin to understand the argument.There is

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: In the cold morning the rested street stands

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The torrent of the reaching shadeBroke shadow into

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: Religion is the sole technique for the validating

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

Allen Tate Quotes By Allen Tate: The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

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