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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.
~ Allen Tate
Alone
Any
Conditions
History
Instance
Less
May
Morality
Never
Nor
Poem
Psychological
Qualities
Social
Social Conditions
Than
Them
Three
Two
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
~ Allen Tate
About
According
Ambition
Anything
Anything Else
Because
Become
Been
Beg
Confederate
Could
Desire
Doctors
Else
General
Invent
Personal
Personal Ambitions
Poet
Set
Society
Up
Use
Would
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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.
~ Allen Tate
Chance
Commentary
Determined
Gets
Honor
Know
More
Must
Often
Only
Rare
Shoot
Than
Twelve
Twenty
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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
~ Allen Tate
Age
Am
Appeal
Authority
I Am
Our
Weak
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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.
~ Allen Tate
Coherence
Criticism
Dramatic
Experience
Form
Indicate
Kind
Logical
May
Speak
Subdued
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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
~ Allen Tate
Being
Conflict
Drama
Experience
Means
Natures
Our
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For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
~ Allen Tate
Before
Came
Critics
Directly
Fixing
Hard
Hard Time
Horizon
Minds
Most
Noses
Object
Reason
See
Some
Telescope
Time
Use
Where
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
~ Allen Tate
Academically
Been
Cherished
Detachment
Gather
Genetic
Theories
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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.
~ Allen Tate
Asked
Come
Does
Geneticist
Happen
How
Poem
Poetry
Psychologists
Question
Where
Write
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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
Am
Besides
Deal
Dreams
Great
Great Deal
I Am
May
Mechanisms
More
Origins
Poetry
Them
Three
Verbal
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
~ Allen Tate
Another
Believe
Change
I Believe
I Believe The
Key
Know
Measure
Music
Rhythm
Shift
Term
Without
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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
~ Allen Tate
Anything
Apart
Knowing
Manner
Neither
Nor
Own
Poem
Poet
Reader
Says
Speaking
Words
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Men expect too much, do too little.
~ Allen Tate
Expect
Little
Men
Much
Too
Too Much
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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.
~ Allen Tate
Art
Cannot
Confederate
Connected
Connection
Dead
Even
Experiences
Fact
Historical
Historical Fact
Historically
History
Logically
Narcissism
No-One
Raw
Stand
Were
Would
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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
~ Allen Tate
About
Compensation
Deal
Good
Good Deal
Other
Psychological
Say
Theories
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
~ Allen Tate
Interested
Men
Poets
Practical
Results
Way
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
~ Allen Tate
Religion
Sole
Technique
Validating
Values
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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.
~ Allen Tate
Cannot
Conflicts
Deals
Does
Fundamental
Logically
Poetry
Rationally
Reason
Relieve
Resolved
Serious
State
Them
Us
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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.
~ Allen Tate
Automobile
Because
Cannot
Even
Failure
Fictitious
He
His
Interesting
Life
Makes
Nobody
Other
Perfect
Persons
Plain
Poet
Predicament
Salesman
Something
Up
Versions
Wants
Who
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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
~ Allen Tate
Heart
Innocent
Mansion
Panther
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Allen Tate
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BirthDate
19 November, 1899
DeathDate
09 February, 1979
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