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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
Author
Literary Critic
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
Natures
Drama
Conflict
Means
Experience
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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.
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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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Men expect too much, do too little.
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Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
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The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.
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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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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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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.
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But we shall not know the world by looking at it we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
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Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.
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So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.
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Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!
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Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.
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we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.
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What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.
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So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.
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I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw not seen even by me.
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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