Allen Tate Quotes
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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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.
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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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.
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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.
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The Spring I seek is in a new face only.