Famous quotes containing the words james and/or tate:
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The man red-faced and tall
Will cast no shadow
From the province of the drowned.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)