“What is the flesh and blood compounded of
But a few moments in the life of time?
This prowling of the cells, litigious love,
Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.”

—  Allen Tate

I, from Collected Poems (1970).

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American poet, essayist and social commentator 1899–1979

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