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Allen Tate

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

Poetry

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Serious poetry explores deep problems in life that don’t have clear, logical solutions. While we can understand these problems through thinking, simply using reason doesn’t make them go away or solve them.

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