"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form."

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

Allen Tate

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“Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.”
“When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.”
“The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.”
“The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.”
“For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in”

Source : Ian Thorpe (2012). “This Is Me: The Autobiography”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
“And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.”
“Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”

Source : "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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