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

Men expect too much, do too little. – 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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Dreams
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Allen Tate
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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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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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One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – D.H. Lawrence

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Now and then it’s good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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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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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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