Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about James Tate

James Tate (writer) Quotes

1 Sourced Quote

    • Source
    • Report...
The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

James Tate

Quote of the day

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

James Tate

James Tate
Creative Commons

Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 8, 2015 (aged 71)
Bio: James Vincent Tate was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Known for:
  1. Dreams of a robot dancing bee (2002)
  2. A Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994)
  3. Return to the city of white donkeys (2004)
  4. Shroud of the gnome (1997)
  5. Distance from loved ones (1990)

WikipediaJames Tate on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

American Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
20th-century Poet Quotes

Related Authors

Charles Simić
Charles Simić
American Poet

Dara Wier
Dara Wier
American Poet

Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham
American Poet

David Lehman
David Lehman
American Poet

Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
American Poet

Featured Authors

Elizabeth I of EnglandAndré GideJean-Paul SartreDonald TrumpJane AustenMartin Luther King, Jr.Martin ScorseseLewis CarrollSteve JobsUmberto EcoCharles DarwinVirgil

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes