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Writers . . . write to give reality to experience (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
A world ends when its metaphor has died (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
What once was cuddled must learn to kiss, The cold worm’s mouth. That’s all the mystery (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off (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)
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it’s not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. (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)
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972] (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal. (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Freedom is the right to one’s dignity as a man (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
A poem should not mean but be (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing (Archibald MacLeish Quotes)
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