Allen Tate

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three…

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is…

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values…

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state…

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a…

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art’s sake if we take the phrase…

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that…