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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

~Allen Tate

Topics: Religion Sole Technique Validating Values

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

~Allen Tate

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Men expect too much, do too little.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

~Allen Tate

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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

Topics: Before Came Critics Directly Fixing Hard Hard Time Horizon Minds Most Noses Object Reason See Some Telescope Time Use Where

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

~Allen Tate

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 19th, 1899

Died: February 9th, 1979

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