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

Quote by Allen Tate

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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to...

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to...

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

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

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

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

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

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

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

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot...

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot...

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase...

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase...

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three...

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three...

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general,...

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general,...

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their...

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their...

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the...

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the...

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that...

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that...

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it...

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it...

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a...

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a...

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it...

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it...

Men expect too much, do too little.

Men expect too much, do too little.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.