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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“For Popes tight back was rather a goats than mans.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Three centuries of piety
Grown bare as a cottonwood tree ...”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“O God of our flesh, return us to Your wrath,
Let us be evil could we enter in
Your grace, and falter on the stony path!”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Come to me, Jenny, lets dance a bit tonight,
The long small tremors at my back again....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)