Allen Tate

Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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Famous quotes by allen tate:

    Say never the strong heart
    In the consuming breath
    Cries out unto the dark
    The skinny death.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Come to me, Jenny, let’s dance a bit tonight,
    The long small tremor’s at my back again....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
    Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
    As if the Known Sea still were a month wide—
    Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    For Pope’s tight back was rather a goat’s than man’s.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    The torrent of the reaching shade
    Broke shadow into all its parts,
    What then had been of shadow made
    Found exigence in fits and starts....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)