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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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    “Hide your pink knees from the gaze of other men.
    You must be pure—go slow with that home-brew”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
    I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
    And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
    It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    “Ironically, you thrill
    Me not with goodness, but with thundering verse.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)