"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."

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Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

Allen Tate

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“I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.”
“A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.”
“The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.”
“It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.”
“I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.”
“I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace.”
“Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”

Source : Benjamin Martin (1749). “Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, a New English Dictionary, Under the Following Titles, Viz. I. Universal; ... VIII. Philosophical; ... To which is Prefix'd, an Introduction, Containing a Physico-grammatical Essay on the Propriety and Rationale of the English Tongue, ... By Benj. Martin”, p.482

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