Archibald MacLeish Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
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
by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.
an image of the world in which men can again believe.
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
The only thing about a man that is a man ... is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
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.