Allen Tate Quotes & Sayings

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26 most famous Allen Tate quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Allen Tate Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!”
Allen Tate Quotes
“Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”
Allen Tate Quotes
“What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.”
Allen Tate Quotes
“Men expect too much, do too little.”
Allen Tate Quotes
“Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”
Allen Tate Quotes
“Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.”
Allen Tate Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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.”

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