"Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values."
-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.“
-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."
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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."
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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."
-Allen Tate
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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."
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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."
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
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"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
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