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But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
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The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
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Last night I fled until I came
To streets where leaking casements dripped
Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
A nervous window bled.
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POET
If not in a place, where are the People weeping?
LIBERAL
They creep weeping in the face, not place.
POET
Is it something with which we may cope
The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
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Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
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The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
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The poet is he who fights on the passionate
Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....
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The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
The meadow creeps implacable and still;
A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
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Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus:
For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.
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The day's at end and there's nowhere to go,
Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
Get up and once again politely lying
Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe....
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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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We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.
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The torrent of the reaching shade
Broke shadow into all its parts,
What then had been of shadow made
Found exigence in fits and starts....
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Born:
November 19, 1899
Died:
February 9, 1979
(aged 79)
Bio:
John Orley Allen Tate 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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