Allen Tate: 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.

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 Tate


		Name: Allen Tate Type: Poet Nationality: American Birth: November 19, 1899 Death: February 9, 1979

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