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Archibald MacLeish Quotes
«What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
breakthrough, breakthroughs, burned to death, explicitly, Hiroshima, modern science, The Problem of the, the Triumphs, triumphs
«Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advanced Technology, advancing, beaches, cement, cementing, cements, countryside, every year, Famous Or, glimpses, high-priced, high technology, hotels, jets, meadows, priced, slum, slums, surf, surfing, sweetness, The Beaches, tourists, tropical, vanish, wildness
«The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
dissenter, dissenters, herd, momentarily, resigns, The Herd
«I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpses and particles of life, seizing on them and holding them and trying to make a pattern of them. In other words, trying to put a world back together again out of its fragmentary moments.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
fragmentary, glimpses, in other words, seizing
«The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent»
«Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.»