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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

Topics: Coherence Criticism Dramatic Experience Form Indicate Kind Logical May Speak Subdued

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

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Topics: Age Am Appeal Authority Our Weak I Am

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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

Topics: Chance Commentary Determined Gets Honor Know More Must Often Only Rare Shoot Than Twelve Twenty

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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

Topics: About According Ambition Anything Anything Else Because Become Been Beg Confederate Could Desire Doctors Else General Invent Personal Poet Set Society Up Use Would

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The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

~Allen Tate

Topics: Face New Only Seek Spring

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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

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Topics: Heart Innocent Mansion Panther

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 19th, 1899

Died: February 9th, 1979

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