Allen Tate quotes - page 2

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. (Allen Tate)
They darted down and rose up like a wave Or buzzed impetuously as before; One would have thought the corpse was held a slave To living by the life it bore! View quote
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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! View quote
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. View quote
Allen Tate

Allen Tate

Occupation: American Poet
Born: November 19, 1899
Died: February 9, 1979
Quotes count: 29
Wikipedia: Allen Tate

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