Logo
Quote by Allen Tate
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more

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

Other quotes by Allen Tate

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Allen Tate
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Allen Tate
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. – Marianne Moore

Category:
Poetry

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

Category:
Poetry

While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. – Willie Nelson

Category:
sad

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Health

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. – Barbara Pym

Category:
Love

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they wont go in there. Thats why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. – Giada De Laurentiis

Category:
Learning