85 Quotes by Allen Tate

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

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.

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....