"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."
-Allen Tate
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"Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.“
-Allen Tate
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"How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry."
-Allen Tate
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"I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it."
-Allen Tate
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"Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them."
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"There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago."
-Allen Tate
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"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
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"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
-Warren Farrell
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"I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow."
-Julianna Margulies
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"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
-Vincent D'Onofrio
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"Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience."
-David Mitchell
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"I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare."
-Julianna Margulies
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"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."
-Vincent D'Onofrio
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