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Allen Tate
November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

   

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

   

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

   

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

   

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.

   

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

   

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