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:
“When the peace is a trade route, figures
For the budget, reduction of population,
Life grown sullen and immense
Lusts after immunity to pain.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“I had kept opaque
Down deeper than the canyons undersea
The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
Nobody saw; not seen even by me....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“She by my side
Stared at the Moon; and then I knew he knew.
And then he smiled at her; to him ‘twas funny—
Her calm steel eyes, her earth-old throat of honey!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Gentlemen, let’s
Forget the past, its related errors, coarseness
Of parents, laxities, unrealities of principle
Think of tomorrow. Make a firm postulate
Of simplicity in desire and act....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“My manner is the footnote to your immoral
Beauty, that leads me with a magic hair
Up the spun highway of a vanishing hill
To Words....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)