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Archibald MacLeish Quotes
«There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.»
«What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.»
«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.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Dreams,
Freedom,
Humanity,
Liberty,
Mind
| Keywords:
American Dream, liberation, The American
«What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.»
«Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.»
«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.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
apple orchard, carry off, earlier, orchard, orchards, stealing
«And there, there overhead, there hung over Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes, There in the starless dark the poise, the hover, There with vast wings across the cancelled skies, There in the sudden blackness the black pall, Of nothing,»
«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.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
order of business, reduce, scope, The Confusion, to order
«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.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
American elder, any longer, assurance, attempted, dickens, frustration, irritated, manifestations, mood, perceptible, self-assurance
«To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
Blue in, bright blue, brothers, floats, loveliness, on that, riders