Allen Tate Quotes

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

Allen Tate

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• I've always looked old for my age.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.'

  

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• '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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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
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• I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

  

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• I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

  

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• Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

  

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• People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• ...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

  

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

  

  Allen Tate
  • Mysterious
  • Poets
  • Banker