What was I saying? An Egyptian king Allen Tate More Quotes by Allen Tate More Quotes From Allen Tate 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 mean years art The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! Allen Tate panthers innocence heart 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 keys change believe 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 doctors ambition desire 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 three dream may We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. Allen Tate particular knows What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate written Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. Allen Tate poet men way Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. Allen Tate sole technique religion 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. Allen Tate twelve twenties honor 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 quality three two For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain. Allen Tate drains intellect waste Let us begin to understand the argument. Allen Tate argument truth science The poet is he who fights on the passionate Allen Tate fighting winning war Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone. Allen Tate wall hair men 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. Allen Tate psychologist doe writing Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy. Allen Tate silence gathering friendship 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 connections historical art Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. Allen Tate experience criticism may Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. Allen Tate deals psychological theory
