American - Poet | November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate
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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
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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.
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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
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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.
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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.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
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