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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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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
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Encourage
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Opportunity
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Think
Opportunities
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Workplace
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
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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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I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.
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Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse the leader's face Was worn as limestone on an ancient sill.
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
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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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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men they are interested in results.
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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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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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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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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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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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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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