“But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.”
Source: The Hovering Fly: And Other Essays
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Famous Allen Tate Quotes
“My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Essays of Four Decades
“We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.”
Source: the man of letters in the modern world