"Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker."

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Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

Allen Tate

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“Few men can afford to be angry.”

Source : Edmund Burke, Augustine Birrell (1945). “Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America”
“I think I lead by example. I don't talk much. I talk when it's needed, but I just go out there and play hard every day and do it the right way.”

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“My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.”
“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”
“When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.”
“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
“I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.”

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“You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.”

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