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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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    “Three centuries of piety
    Grown bare as a cottonwood tree ...”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “She knows there’s no success like failure
    And that failure’s no success at all.”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    “The singular passion
    Abides its object and consumes desire
    In the circling shadow of its appetite.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)