Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts Posted on September 1, 2012September 1, 2007 by admin “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.” — Allen Tate Author: Allen Tate Category: poetry Tags: poetry, Allen Tate Spread the love Related posts: I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, How does one happen to write a I want a fever, in poetry: a That poetry survived in its formal agencies