Quotes of Archibald MacLeish

“ Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeveworn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs, Leaving, as the moon releases Twig by twig the nightentangled trees, Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves, Memory by memory the mind— A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs. A poem should be equal to: Not true. For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf. For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea— A poem should not mean But be. ”

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Poetry

“ A poem should not mean But be. ”

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Poetry

“ 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 ”

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Poetry

“ Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. ”

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Death

“ 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 ”

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Death

“ 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 ”

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Writing

“ 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] ”

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Knowledge

“ 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] ”

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Books

“ There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. ”

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Freedom

“ What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ”

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Freedom

“ 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… ”

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Automobile

“ 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… ”

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Beach

“ The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent. ”

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Behaviour

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

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Buddy

“ 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. ”

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Brother

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

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Brother

“ 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. ”

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Better

“ 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. ”

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Coherence

“ What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists. ”

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Collection

“ 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. ”

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Credit

“ It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. ”

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Clutch

“ America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. ”

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Covenant

“ Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason, either in football or in poetry, why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ”

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Conventional

“ We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent. ”

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Choice

“ What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ”

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Choice

“ 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. ”

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Cautiously

“ What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists. ”

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Certainty

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

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Crony

“ We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent. ”

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Culpable

“ 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. ”

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Quotes of Archibald MacLeish - somelinesforyou

“ A poem should not mean But be. ”

“ 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 ”

“ Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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 ”

“ 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] ”

“ 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] ”

“ There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. ”

“ What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ”

“ 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… ”

“ 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… ”

“ The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent. ”

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

“ 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. ”

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists. ”

“ 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. ”

“ It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. ”

“ America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. ”

“ Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason, either in football or in poetry, why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ”

“ We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent. ”

“ What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ”

“ 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. ”

“ What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists. ”

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

“ We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent. ”

“ 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. ”