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

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Poetry
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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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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

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Poetry
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Action battles doubt. – Terri Guillemets, “The sword of doing,” 2007

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. – Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

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He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Action is eloquence. – William Shakespeare

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