Famous Quotes | What a cheerful rhyme! Clean not...

What a cheerful rhyme! Clean not mean!
Been not seen! Not tired—expired!
We must now decide about place.
We decide that place is the big weeping face
And the other abstract lace of the race.
- Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “Eclogue of the Liberal and the Poet.”

Categories: Critic, Rhyme

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