Quotes by Allen Tate

Allen Tate

American poet and essayist

Lived from: 1899 - 1979

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 19 november 1899 Died: 9 february 1979

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• There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

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• We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

  ― Allen Tate
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• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  ― Allen Tate
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• I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

  ― Allen Tate
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Subjects in these quotes:

• repressions
• ridiculing
• mechanisms
• england
• restate
• origins

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