Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn (June 30, 1928 – June 2024) was a French-American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator.

Quotes

 * I speak from ignorance. Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.
 * Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965) Old savage, young city. p. 18.


 * Where there's no stop and go a thought may wet your face, a breath arrest your stare.
 * Poem Markings published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1968) Where Babylon ends.


 * The death-of-the-author thematics, as commonly adapted, are another inanity: when society does its very best to homogenize us, what is wrong with a strong, knowledgeable, and responsible ego crying in the darkening wilderness?
 * Nathaniel Tarn (1999) "Octavio Paz, Anthropology, and the Future of Poetry" published in: The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology (2007). p. 118.