Allen Tate
Allen Tate
John Orley Allen Tate, known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 November 1899
CountryUnited States of America
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fundamentals serious doe
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.
encouragement opportunity thinking
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
kings twilight long
What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.
waste drains intellect
For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain....
shadow shade fit
The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts....
particular knows
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
experience criticism may
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
psychological theory deals
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
detachment theory has-beens
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
friendship silence gathering
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.
nursery cheat conceit
So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet....
dying not-afraid
We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.
lakes opaque saws
I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....
glasses church saint
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.