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Allen Tate Inspirational Quotes (79)

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
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There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.
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Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
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The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies. One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
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The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.
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POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
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So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.
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There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
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For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
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Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.
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Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
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In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents delinquents, patients Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.
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For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.
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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
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The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men they are interested in results.
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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.
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
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Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor at twenty not to shoot at all I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
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