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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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    “Two dollars now prognosticate
    An image supine and elate
    For Jenny sweet will keep the date....”
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    “I have misplaced the Van Allen belt
    the sewers and the drainage,
    the urban renewal and the suburban centers.
    I have forgotten the names of the literary critics.”
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    “Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
    Come once a day to suffocate the sight.”
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