Allen Tate Men Quotations

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

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

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

Men cannot live forever But they must die forever....

There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

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

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.

Men expect too much, do too little.