Allen Tate Quotes

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.

- Allen Tate

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Poetry | Deals | Fundamental | Conflicts | Logically |

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