Allen Tate Quotes

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment... view

By: Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values... view

By: Allen Tate

Poets, in their way, are practical men.. view

By: Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation... view

By: Allen Tate

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically.. view

By: Allen Tate

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate... view

By: Allen Tate

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... view

By: Allen Tate

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... view

By: Allen Tate

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago... view

By: Allen Tate

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry... view

By: Allen Tate

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry.. view

By: Allen Tate

Men expect too much, do too little... view

By: Allen Tate

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... view

By: Allen Tate

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!.. view

By: Allen Tate

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace... view

By: Allen Tate

The Spring I seek is in a new face only... view

By: Allen Tate

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from... view

By: Allen Tate

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama... view

By: Allen Tate

Dramatic experience is not logical.. view

By: Allen Tate

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age... view

By: Allen Tate

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor.. view

By: Allen Tate

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... view

By: Allen Tate

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history.. view

By: Allen Tate

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure... view

By: Allen Tate

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

By: Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why... view

By: Allen Tate