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Allen Tate
 
Date of birth: 19 November 1899
Date of death: 09 February 1979
Country Of Origin: America
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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. "

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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. "

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" And if I call this interest in one's ego Narcissism, I make myself a logical ignoramus, and I take liberties with mythology. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama. "

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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. "

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" Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. "

Allen Tate
" 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. "

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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
" 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
" I should have trouble connecting solipsism and the Confederate dead in a rational argument; I should make a fool of myself in the discussion, because I know no more of the Confederate dead or of solipsism than hundreds of other people. "

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" I use Narcissism to mean only preoccupation with self; it may be either love or hate. "

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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. "

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