Allen Tate Quotes

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

Allen Tate

• Mysterious
• Poets
• Banker

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Beginning

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Job
  • Together

• I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree probably Caesar Baronius: 'The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Heaven

• 'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Loyalty

• But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Art
  • Scary

• In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Men
  • Different
  • Writing

• I can't write songs unless I am in love.

  

  Kevin Ayers

• I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

  

  Jerry Mathers

• When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Intimacy
  • Hug

• After 'Chen Zhen,' I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • Emotional

• I'm a very laid-back person.

  

  James Lapine

• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Men
  • Women
  • Retirement

• People are conditioned by the media to think that black women are all shouting, and head shaking and girlfriending and “oh no you didn’t” and if they’re not sassy, then they’re dignified and downtrodden and soldiering on and “I don’t understand why folks just can’t get along.” But if you see a black woman go quiet the way Tyburn did, the eyes bright, the lips straight and the face still as a death mask, you have made an enemy for life, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred. Do

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Enemy
  • Media
  • Black Women

• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  

  William Blake
  • Gods
  • Poets
  • Objects

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

  

  Allen Tate
  • Mysterious
  • Poets
  • Banker