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Allen Tate
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“They darted down and rose up like a wave Or buzzed impetuously as before; One would have thought the corpse was held a slave To living by the life it bore!”
Allen Tate (1899–1979) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Carrion", from Poems (1961)
“What is the flesh and blood compounded of But a few moments in the life of time? This prowling of the cells, litigious love, Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.”
Allen Tate (1899–1979) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I", from Collected Poems (1970)
“Now remember courage, go to the door, Open it and see whether coiled on the bed Or cringing by the wall, a savage beast Maybe with golden hair, with deep eyes Like a bearded spider on a sunlit floor Will snarl—and man can never be alone.”
Allen Tate (1899–1979) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wolves", from Collected Poems (1970)
“Uncle Sam's other province.”
Allen Tate (1899–1979) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Description of the South, quoted in W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South (1962) p. vii