Allen Tate Quotes

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Allen Tate, an American poet, was born on November 19, 1899, and passed away on February 9, 1979. He is renowned for his profound depiction of Southern culture and his unique contributions to modernism.

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All Poet Knows Men Faces Long May Twilight Dark Littles Lying Three Age Boys Christmas Deals Eye Feet Fingers Heard Heart

Famous Allen Tate Quotes

“POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?”

People Ifs May Faces Poet Weeping Creeps Peeping

Book:Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection

Source: Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection

“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

Kind May Form Speak Criticism Experience Dramatic Logical Coherence

Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.”

May Two Three Social Quality Conditions Morality Psychological Instance Social Conditions

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.”

May Dream Three Deals Mechanism Repression

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”

May Real Evidence Critics Finished

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

About the Author

Born: November 19, 1899
Died: February 9, 1979
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 79

Books & Sources

Collected Poems, 1919-1976Related source material

the man of letters in the modern worldRelated source material

Essays of Four DecadesRelated source material

Poems, 1920-1945: A SelectionRelated source material

PoemsRelated source material

T. S. Eliot: The Man and His WorkRelated source material

The Hovering Fly: And Other EssaysRelated source material

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