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Allen Tate

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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.


— Allen Tate


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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.


— Allen Tate


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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.


— Allen Tate


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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


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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!


— Allen Tate


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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.


— Allen Tate


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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.


— Allen Tate


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The Spring I seek is in a new face only.


— Allen Tate


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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.


— Allen Tate


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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.


— Allen Tate


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Warren and Tate were invited to join a group of young Southern poets under the leadership of John Crowe Ransom; the group were known as the Fugitive Poets and later as the Southern Agrarians. Tate and Lytle had attended Vanderbilt together prior to collaborating at The University of the South. This collection--which brought together work from two recent volumes Poems: 1928-1931 (1932) and the privately printed The Mediterranean and Other Poems (1936) as well as the early Mr.

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19 1899 – February 9 1979) was an American poet essayist social commentator and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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