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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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    “the quicksilver art
    Throws back the invisible but lightning mass
    To inhabit the room; for I have seen it part
    The palpable air....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Man, dull creature of enormous head,
    What would he look at in the coiling sky?”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)