"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be……" — Allen Tate
"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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Allen Tate
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37 Quotes by Allen Tate
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Men expect too much, do too little.
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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the…
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities,…
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at…
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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and…
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know…
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not…
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides…
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Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance…
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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
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...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace,…
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From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of…
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in…
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The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual…
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You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's…
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We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and…
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The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms,…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian…
— John Stott
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In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an…
— John O'Donohue
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