Allen Tate Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Allen Tate
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“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”
Value Quotes
“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Men expect too much, do too little.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
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“But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.”
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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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes