Archibald MacLeish Quotes
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
2442 Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.
1810 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
4687 A poem should not mean
But be.
2822 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]
2977 As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human interest.
1330 What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
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