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Allen Tate Quotes Page 2 of 2Allen 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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