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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
- Allen TatePhoto by Yousef Espanioly on Unsplash
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
- Allen TateThere is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase...
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically...
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence...
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not...
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price,...
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are...
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
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