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....


Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection (ed. 1947)

Allen Tate Quotes

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....

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....

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....

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....