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 Read 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. Allen Tate Read 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. Allen Tate Read 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. Allen Tate Read Quote
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate Read 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. Allen Tate Read Quote
