Allen Tate
Quotes
- 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.
- Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
- 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.