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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
— Allen Tate
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
— Allen Tate
Tags: sole, technique, values, religion
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
Tags: morality, never, history, alone
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
Tags: who, nobody, failure, life
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
Tags: anything, personal, desire, society
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
Tags: dead, stand, history, art
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