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I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally but reason does not relieve us of them.
Quotes By Allen Tate
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the...
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase...
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So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in...
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Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence...
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms dreams or repressions as origins of...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.