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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

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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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Allen Tate
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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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