Allen Tate

North Carolina · connected1899–1979

American poet, essayist and social commentator (1899–1979)

Worked at University of North Carolina at Greensboro

poet, university teacher, writer, literary critic, critic

Quotations with a citation

They darted down and rose up like a wave Or buzzed impetuously as before; One would have thought the corpse was held a slave To living by the life it bore!

Uncle Sam's other province.

What is the flesh and blood compounded of But a few moments in the life of time? This prowling of the cells, litigious love, Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Now remember courage, go to the door, Open it and see whether coiled on the bed Or cringing by the wall, a savage beast Maybe with golden hair, with deep eyes Like a bearded spider on a sunlit floor Will snarl—and man can never be alone.

In the libraries

Open Library Essays · 1968 View library record ↗ Open Library Jefferson Davis · 1929 View library record ↗ Open Library Poems · 1947 View library record ↗ Open Library Stonewall Jackson · 1930 View library record ↗ Open Library The fathers · 1938 View library record ↗ Open Library The swimmers, and other selected poems · 1970 View library record ↗

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