Quotes about Allen Tate

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

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

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

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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished...

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