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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Famous quotes by allen tate:

    Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    No head knows where its rest is
    Or may lie down with reason
    When war’s usurping claws
    Shall take heart escheat....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    because your clamorous blood
    Beats an impermanent rest
    You think the dead arise
    Westward and fabulous:
    The dead are those whose lies
    Were doors to a narrow house.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    A hunger flashing in the eye
    Which jutting bellies would belie.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    this winter’s revolt of the unbellied trees
    one reason being they’re all gnarled knees
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)