“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
Author: Allen Tate
Category: dreams
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So the poet, who wants to be
“So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: failure
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams,
“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
Author: Allen Tate
Category: poetry
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How does one happen to write a
“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
Author: Allen Tate
Category: poetry
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be
“Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: history
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts
“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
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Religion is the sole technique for the
“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: religion
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A poem may be an instance of
“A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: alone
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