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

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

Category:
Poetry
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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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Poetry
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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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Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

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Talk doesn’t cook rice. – Chinese Proverb

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It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. – Orval Hobart Mowrer

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Action

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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