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Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
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Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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Winchester
Kentucky
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Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
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The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
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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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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three never less than all.
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So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.
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Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.
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What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.
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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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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
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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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The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
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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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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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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
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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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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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