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

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

Other quotes by Allen Tate

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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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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Dreams
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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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Failure
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

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Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds. – Jewish Proverb

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Action is eloquence. – William Shakespeare

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Doing things is not the same as getting things done. – Jared Silver, jaredsilver.name (@JaredSilver)

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