Allen Tate Quotes

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.

- Allen Tate

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Ridiculing | Verbal | Mechanisms | Dreams | Repressions |

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