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Allen Tate

"Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

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"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."
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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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"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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"Men expect too much, do too little."
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"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."
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"What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why."
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