Allen Tate

Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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    I had kept opaque
    Down deeper than the canyons undersea
    The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
    Nobody saw; not seen even by me....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    there’s a kind of lust feeds on itself
    Unspoken to, unspeaking; subterranean
    As a black river full of eyeless fish
    Heavy with spawn; with a passion for time
    Longer than the arteries of a cave.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Summer, this is our flesh,
    The body you let mature;
    If now while the body is fresh
    You take it, shall we give
    The heart....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    For when they meet, the tensile air
    Like fine steel strains under the weight
    Of messages that both hearts bear—
    Pure passion once, now purest hate....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)