• In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

  Allen Tate
  American poet and essayist 1899-1979
  

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1. speaking
2. anything
3. knowing
4. apart
5. words

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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. by : Allen Tate

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