Famous Quotes | What is this conversation, now...

What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage.... - Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “Causerie.”

Categories: Conversation, Critic

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