"So, Anactoria, go you away With what calm……" — Allen Tate
"So, Anactoria, go you away With what calm carelessness of sorrow! Your gleaming footstep and your grace, When comes another morrow, Much would I rather then behold Than Lydian cars or infantry."
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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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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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