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Allen Tate quotes: There is a calm for you where men and womenUnroll the chill precision of moving feet.

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

Allen Tate quotes: Punctilious abyss, the yawn of spaceCome once a day to suffocate the sight.

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

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

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain ...

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

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

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: I have felt darkness lead me by the handOver the hill to greet the singing dawn ...

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

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: Men cannot live foreverBut they must die forever ...

Men cannot live forever
But they must die forever ...

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

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

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: We know our endA packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.

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

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

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

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: Last night I fled until I cameTo streets where leaking casements drippedStale lamplight from the corpse of flame;A nervous window bled.

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 quotes: The poet is he who fights on the passionateSide and whoever loses he wins; when heIs defeated it is hard to say who wins ...

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 quotes: Antiquity breached mortality with myths.Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decoratesA cornice on the Third National Bank.

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

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

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 quotes: So the dubbed conceitPlayed nursery of cheatTo clear the I of sleet ...

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

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

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

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: Struck in the wet mireFour thousand leagues from the ninth buried cityI thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

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 quotes: The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

Allen Tate quotes: Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect diveTo the dead Mother's face, whose subtile downYou had not seen take amber light alive.

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 quotes: We are afraid that we have not lived.We are not afraid of dying.

We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

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

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

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

Allen Tate quotes: I had kept opaqueDown deeper than the canyons underseaThe sullen spectrum of a buried lakeNobody saw; not seen even by me ...

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I thought I heard the dark pounding its headOn a rock, crying: Who are the dead?

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

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

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Allen Tate quotes: So face with calm that heritageAnd earn contempt before the age.

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

Allen Tate quotes: Men expect too much, do too little.

Men expect too much, do too little.

Allen Tate quotes: What was I saying? An Egyptian kingOnce touched long fingers, which are not anything.

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

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: All the sea-gods are dead.You, Venus, come homeTo your salt maidenhead ...

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

Allen Tate quotes: Death's long anabasis.

Death's long anabasis.

Allen Tate quotes: Our loss put six feet under groundIs measured by the magnolia's root;Our gain's the intellectual soundOf death's feet round a weedy tomb.

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 quotes: The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;Far off a precise whistle is escheatTo the dark; and then the towering weak and pale ...

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 quotes: Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

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

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

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 quotes: Therefore with idle hands and head I sitIn late December before the fire's dazePunished by crimes of which I would be quit.

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 quotes: Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

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

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

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

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

Allen Tate quotes: In the cold morning the rested street stands upTo greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

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

Allen Tate quotes: The torrent of the reaching shadeBroke shadow into all its parts,What then had been of shadow madeFound exigence in fits and starts ...

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 quotes: Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

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

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!