Allen Tate quoteAllen Tate [1899-1979]
American Poet (with poems)
Quote rank: 110
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. |
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