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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“There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“The moon will run all consciences to cover....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“A hunger flashing in the eye
Which jutting bellies would belie.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,
Declines upon her lost and twilight age;
Above in the dozing leaves the grinning cat
Quivers forever with his abstract rage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Sing a song of Bethlehem
Star of all of the Idmen
Everybody’s Jesus
Now if never then”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)