Quotes by Allen Tate
Life stood on the top stair a moment Waved her last gray slander down the stair,...
Lest darkness fall and time fall In a long night when learned arteries...
Accept these costly wreaths for my own sake (Death asks no entrance fee to let you in)...
Men cannot live forever But they must die forever....
For, brother, know that this is art, and you With a cold incautious sorrow stricken dumb,...
Your death, dear Lady, was quite cold For all the brave tears and ultimate spasm....
Death's long anabasis.
Captains of industry, your aimless power Awakens harsh velleities of time....
For laughter frames the lips of death— Death frames the Singer and the Song.
Landor, not that I doubt your word, That you had strove with none...
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
By the roadside a hideous carrion, quivering On a clean bed of pebbly clay,...
What shall we say of the bones, unclean, Whose verdurous anonymity will grow?...
I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
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O God of our flesh, return us to Your wrath, Let us be evil could we enter in Your grace, and falter on the stony path!
Not glad, lifeless tycoon, nor sorry feel For neither Bull nor Bear attends your way....
I suck in smoke! I smile at grimy mirth, And laugh to think that you had parried death.
Buzzards float upon the sky Shrilling a metaphysic cry,...
The stage is about to be swept of corpses. You have no more chance than an infusorian Lodged in a hollow molar of an eohippus.
Death is untutored, with an ignorant frown For precious identities of breath.
And even you will come to this foul shame, This ultimate infection,...
The faceless head lay still. I could not run Or walk, but stood. Alone in the public clearing...
When the peace is a trade route, figures For the budget, reduction of population,...
