Quotes by Allen Tate - Page 2

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
Allen Tate / Poet
Church
Glasses
Twists
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Knowing
Poet
Reader
Talking
Words
Apart
Manner
Neither
Nor
Poem
Says
Speaking
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Dream
May
Three
Besides
Great Deal
Mechanisms
Origins
Verbal
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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
Allen Tate / Poet
Encouragement
Opportunity
Careers
Thinking
Traditional
Workplace
Entrance
For The Day
Mission
Opportunities
Prepare
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Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!
Allen Tate / Poet
Arches
Crucible
Dark
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The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.
Allen Tate / Poet
Christmas
Smile
Dying
Fire
Lying
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What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.
Allen Tate / Poet
Blood
Cells
Long
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Deals
Doe
Fundamentals
Serious
Conflicts
Fundamental
Logically
Rationally
Relieve
Resolved
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Change
Believe
Keys
Rhythm
Term
Measure
Shift
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The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still; A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies. One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
Allen Tate / Poet
Dog
Eye
Lying
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Art
England
Forty
Mean
Sake
Years
Years Ago
Forty Years
Phrase
Seriously
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The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
Allen Tate / Poet
Heart
Lazy
Wall
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There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.
Allen Tate / Poet
Dark
Sailing
Twilight
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And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.
Allen Tate / Poet
Eye
Fall
Twilight
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Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!
Allen Tate / Poet
Ocean
Lying
Sleep
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Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.
Allen Tate / Poet
Good Man
Plot
Weed
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Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Allen Tate / Poet
Men
Fashion
Skills
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Allen Tate / Poet
Flesh
Heaven
Titles
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Quality
Conditions
Instance
Morality
Psychological
Social Conditions
Three
Two
Nor
Poem
Qualities
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Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.
Allen Tate / Poet
Eye
Feet
Moon
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Critics
Fixing
Hard Times
Horizon
Mind
Noses
Directly
Hard Time
Minds
Object
Telescope
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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?
Allen Tate / Poet
Faces
May
People
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
Allen Tate / Poet
Commentary
Determined
Honor
Twelve
Twenties
Rare
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Allen Tate / Poet
Art
Confederate
Connected
Connections
Historical
Narcissism
Dead
Experiences
Historical Fact
Logically
Raw
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Christian
Expression
Self
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Failure
Automobile
Interesting
Perfect
Persons
Salesman
Versions
Want
Fictitious
Plain
Predicament
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Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.
Allen Tate / Poet
Men
Hair
Wall
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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.
Allen Tate / Poet
Ambition
Confederate
Desire
Doctors
According
Anything Else
Beg
Fictions
Invent
Personal Ambitions
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
Allen Tate / Poet
Friendship
Gathering
Silence
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