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:
“Big-Little, Great-
Small; Big then ate
Little and his plate....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“trees grope with itch for Spring
go on and itch Trees you don’t know anything”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“So face with calm that heritage
And earn contempt before the age.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Whether your kindness, mother,
Is mother of silences.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“For when they meet, the tensile air
Like fine steel strains under the weight
Of messages that both hearts bear—
Pure passion once, now purest hate....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)