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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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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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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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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Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. – Black Elk

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My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams. – Diane Keaton

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Dreams

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. – Giorgio Armani

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We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about. – Sonia Braga

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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. – St. Augustine

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