Author: Allen Tate

Quotes

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

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

- Allen Tate

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

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

- Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

- Allen Tate

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

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

- Allen Tate

Men expect too much, do too little.

Men expect too much, do too little.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

- Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

- Allen Tate

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