{SCA} John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

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1. Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

2. Allen Tate

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

3. Allen Tate

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

4. Allen Tate

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

5. Allen Tate

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

6. Allen Tate

The innocent mansion of a panther’s heart!

7. Allen Tate

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

8. Allen Tate

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

9. Allen Tate

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

10. Allen Tate

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

11. Allen Tate

Men expect too much, do too little.

12. Allen Tate

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

13. Allen Tate

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

14. Allen Tate

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

15. Allen Tate

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

16. Allen Tate

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

17. Allen Tate

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

18. Allen Tate

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.

19. Allen Tate

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

20. Allen Tate

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance – In killing there is more than commentary.