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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! Allen Tate heartinnocentmansion Change image and share on social
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. Allen Tate ambitionbegconfederate share on social
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate poemquestionwrite Change image and share on social
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs. Eavan Boland fieldforcehumiliation share on social
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ideanonsensicalpoem Change image and share on social
