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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 live
Who 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 mean
But 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 sun
And 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