Allen Tate's Quote - How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That

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

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Men expect too much, do too little. – Allen Tate

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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate

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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

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