• So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

  Allen Tate
  American poet and essayist 1899-1979
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. predicament
2. interesting
3. automobile
4. salesman
5. perfect

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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. by : Allen Tate

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