Allen Tate Quotes

Allen Tate wrestles with life's fleeting moments and the clash of flesh and spirit, offering a bold, thoughtful voice.

15 quotes

1. They darted down and rose up like a wave Or buzzed impetuously as before; One would have thought the corpse was held a slave To living by the life it bore!

2. What is the flesh and blood compounded of But a few moments in the life of time? This prowling of the cells, litigious love, Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

3. Now remember courage, go to the door, Open it and see whether coiled on the bed Or cringing by the wall, a savage beast Maybe with golden hair, with deep eyes Like a bearded spider on a sunlit floor Will snarl-and man can never be alone.

4. The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

5. There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

6. The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

7. In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.

8. With spring the father-sky remakes the world: The male shower has flowed into the bride, Earth's body; then shifted through sky and sea and land To touch the quickening childin her deep side.

9. Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

10. Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

11. For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.

12. Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

13. 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.

14. My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.

15. Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.