Defeated Quote by Allen Tate

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of…

— Allen Tate

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

— Allen Tate

There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

— Allen Tate

The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

— Allen Tate

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long…

— Allen Tate

In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores,…

— Allen Tate

With spring the father-sky remakes the world: The male shower has flowed into the bride, Earth's body; then shifted through sky and sea and…

— Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

— Allen Tate

Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for…

— Allen Tate

For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

— Allen Tate

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

— Allen Tate

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…

— Allen Tate