Quote by Allen Tate
Men expect too much, do too little. - Allen Tate

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

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

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Experience
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

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Poetry
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. – Allen Tate

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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. – Jonatan MÃ¥rtensson

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. – Oscar Wilde

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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

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