Allen Tate Quotes - Page 4

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• Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

  Allen Tate

  Wall, Men, Hair

  Allen Tate, “The Wolves”

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• 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

  Dream, Three, May

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Row after row with strict impunity
  The headstones yield their names to the element,
  The wind whirrs without recollection.

  Allen Tate

  Wind, Names, Yield

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.20, Macmillan

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• So the dubbed conceit
  Played nursery of cheat
  To clear the I of sleet.

  Allen Tate

  Nursery, Cheat, Conceit

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.126, Macmillan

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