Will Allen
Will Allen
Will Allenis an American football safety who is currently a free agent. Allen played college football for Ohio State University, and received All-American honors. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he has also played for the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth17 June 1982
perfect interesting want
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
written
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
particular knows
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
art mean years
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
real may critics
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
spring faces spring-poems
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
world hovering knows
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
glasses church saint
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.
ham actors poet
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
heaven flesh titles
William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
shadow shade fit
The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts....
dark crucible arches
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!
dog lying eye
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still; A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies. One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
twilight hair long
The twilight is long fingers and black hair.