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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“this winter’s revolt of the unbellied trees
one reason being they’re all gnarled knees”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“‘The god has not yet answered to our pity
For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
Nor is there knowing soever in the city
Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins.’”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Marlowe went muttering to death
When he had done with song and lust.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Dignity’s the stain
Of mortal sin that knows humility.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Let us begin to understand the argument.
There is a solution to everything: Science.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)