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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
Allen Tate -
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
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
Allen Tate -
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
Allen Tate -
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 -
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.
Allen Tate -
Men cannot live forever But they must die forever....
Allen Tate -
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
Allen Tate