Quote by Allen Tate
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as o

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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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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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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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. – Anais Nin

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. – Virginia Woolf

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Dreams

After having done this whole slew of press for Big Love, now Ill have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I cant even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on Jersey Shore. – Chloe Sevigny

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Dreams

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. – Matthew Arnold

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Dreams

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