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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Famous Allen Tate Quotes

“The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.”

War Hard Poetry Fighting Winning Sides Loses Poet Passionate Defeated

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“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

“Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.”

Actors Poet Ham

Author:Allen Tate

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

Said Poetry Poet Mysterious Bankers

Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.”

Has Beens Use Desire Fiction Poet Ambition Doctors Confederate

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.”

Talking Knowing Poet Reader

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”

Men Way Results Poet Practicals

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.”

Want Persons Perfect Interesting Poet Versions Automobile Salesman Predicaments

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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