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Allen Tate

American Poet

Born: Nov 19, 1899

Died: Feb 9, 1979

Any Art Does Experience Know Poet

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate

Poem Written Came Question Where After Why

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. Allen Tate

Art Seriously Nothing Kind Phrase Poetry Take Written Wrong Sake Years Years Ago Mean Forty Forty Years England

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. Allen Tate

Detachment Genetic Academically Cherished Been Theories Gather

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. Allen Tate

Says Restate Poem Particular Know

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. Allen Tate

Religion Values Validating Sole Technique

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. Allen Tate

Men Way Poets Results Practical Interested

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. Allen Tate

Good Other Say About Deal Psychological Theories Good Deal Compensation

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

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. Allen Tate

Experience Conflict Drama Our Being Means Natures

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary. Allen Tate

Honor Rare Must Determined More Only Know Commentary Than Shoot Gets Often Twelve Twenty Chance

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. Allen Tate

Invent Poet Doctors Become Ambition Confederate Society Else Would About General Could Because Been Beg According Up Personal Personal Ambitions Anything Anything Else Fictions Use Desire Set

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

Alone History Three Morality Poem Never Instance Qualities Nor Conditions Than Any May Psychological Social Them Social Conditions Less Two

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