Best Allen Tate Quotes
- But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly. Fly
- Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as… Art
- Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. Coherence
- Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. Compensation
- Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. All
- This is the man who classifiedthe bits Of his friends' hells into a pigeonhole He hung each disparate anguish on the spits Parboiled and roasted… Anguish
- Your mind was wrought in cosmic solitude, Through which careered an Careered
- Heredity Proposes love, love exacts language, and we lack Language. When shall we speak again? When shall The sparrow dusting the gutter sing? When shall… Drift
- No head knows where its rest is Or may lie down with reason When war's usurping claws Shall take heart escheat.... Claws
- 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 land… Body
- 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… Behold
- Every son-of-a-bitch is Christ, at least Rousseau.... Bitch