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Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world Picture Quote #1

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man Picture Quote #1

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold Picture Quote #1

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be Picture Quote #1

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there Picture Quote #1

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered Picture Quote #1

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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself Picture Quote #1

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know Picture Quote #1

The only thing about a man that is a man... is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse Picture Quote #1

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty Picture Quote #1

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing Picture Quote #1

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith Picture Quote #1

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If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see Picture Quote #1

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats Picture Quote #1

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent Picture Quote #1

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men’s watch upon the world and on themselves Picture Quote #1

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can’t be heard Picture Quote #1

Piety’s hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man’s piety stinks. It’s insufferable Picture Quote #1

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Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo Picture Quote #1

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) The only thing about a man that is a man... is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men’s watch upon the world and on themselves (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can’t be heard (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Piety’s hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man’s piety stinks. It’s insufferable (Archibald MacLeish Quotes) Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)

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