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We knock upon silence for an answering music.
— Archibald MacLeish
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
— Archibald MacLeish
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
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
— Archibald MacLeish
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
— Archibald MacLeish
They also liveWho swerve and vanish in the river. — Archibald MacLeish
Writers ... write to give reality to experience.
— Archibald MacLeish
There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
— Archibald MacLeish
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
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
— Archibald MacLeish
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
— Archibald MacLeish
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
— Archibald MacLeish
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
— Archibald MacLeish
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
— Archibald MacLeish
History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
— Archibald MacLeish
The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
— Archibald MacLeish
A poem should not meanBut be. — Archibald MacLeish
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
— Archibald MacLeish
See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
— Archibald MacLeish
You wanted justice ,didn't you?There isn't any ... there is only love. - J.B's wife
— Archibald MacLeish
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
— Archibald MacLeish
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.
— Archibald MacLeish
A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.
— Archibald MacLeish
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.
— Archibald MacLeish
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
Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.
— Archibald MacLeish
Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
— Archibald MacLeish
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
— Archibald MacLeish
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
— Archibald MacLeish
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe. — Archibald MacLeish
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
— Archibald MacLeish
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
— Archibald MacLeish
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
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
— Archibald MacLeish
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
A world ends when its metaphor has died.
— Archibald MacLeish
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
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
— Archibald MacLeish
And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night — Archibald MacLeish
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
What once was cuddled must learn to kiss, The cold worm's mouth. That's all the mystery.
— Archibald MacLeish
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
— Archibald MacLeish
Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo. — Archibald MacLeish
We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.
— Archibald MacLeish
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
— Archibald MacLeish