Famous Quotes | I cannot beat off
Invincible...

I cannot beat off
Invincible modes of the sea, hearing:
Be a man my son by God.
He turned again
To the purring jet yellowing the murder story,
Deaf to the pathos circling in the air.
- Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “A Pauper.”

Categories: Critic, Fathers

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