Allen Tate - According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate gene...

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Allen Tate

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Laut ihren Ärzten besteht mein einziger unnachgiebiger Wunsch darin, ein konföderierter General gewesen zu sein, und weil ich nichts anderes werden konnte oder wollte, habe ich mich für einen Dichter eingerichtet und möchte Fiktionen über die persönlichen Ambitionen erfinden, die meine Gesellschaft ohne Nutzen hat zum.

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