Allen Tate Quotes About Twilight

Quotes about: Twilight

• The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Hair, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.193, Macmillan

• What was I saying? An Egyptian king
  Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

  Allen Tate

  Kings, Twilight, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.194, Macmillan

• And I have seen long fingers that would stare
  With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl
  Deftly across the counterpane and fall
  Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Fall, Eye

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.193, Macmillan

• Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
  Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Sight, Space

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.72, Macmillan

• There's precious little to say between day and dark,
  Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
  Of time sailing like a magic barque
  Or something as fine for the amenities.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Dark, Sailing

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.43, Macmillan

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