Top 30 Allen Tate Quotes (2024 Update)

Allen Tate Quote: “Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”

1. “Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”

Allen Tate Quote: “The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.”

2. “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 Quote: “Men expect too much, do too little.”

3. “Men expect too much, do too little.”

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “The innocent mansion of a panther’s heart!”

5. “The innocent mansion of a panther’s heart!”

Allen Tate Quote: “The twilight is long fingers and black hair.”

6. “The twilight is long fingers and black hair.”

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.”

8. “Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.”

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain...”

11. “For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain...”

Allen Tate Quote: “Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.”

12. “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 Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.”

14. “Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.”

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

15. “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 Quote: “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.”

16. “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 Quote: “Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”

17. “Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

18. “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 Quote: “Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”

19. “Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”

Allen Tate Quote: “Death’s long anabasis.”

20. “Death’s long anabasis.”

Allen Tate Quote: “Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”

21. “Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”

Allen Tate Quote: “But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.”

22. “But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.”

Allen Tate Quote: “The Spring I seek is in a new face only.”

23. “The Spring I seek is in a new face only.”

Allen Tate Quote: “Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.”

24. “Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.”

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

25. “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 Quote: “The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”

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

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

27. “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 Quote: “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.”

28. “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 Quote: “What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.”

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

Allen Tate Quote: “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.”

30. “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 Quote: “Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”

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

Allen Tate Quote: “We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.”

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

Allen Tate Quote: “But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.”

33. “But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.”

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