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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

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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

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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

#apart #knower #knowing #manner #neither

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. ↗

— Allen Tate

#compensation #deal #good #good deal #other

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

— Allen Tate

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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! ↗

— Allen Tate

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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

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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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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

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