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

A poem should not meanBut be.

Collected Poems

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onT...

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

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

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

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There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing...

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

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Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of verti...

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A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing ...

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When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it ...

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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it ...

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We knock upon silence for an answering music.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from exp...

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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Foot...

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What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

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What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

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As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of ...

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Archibald MacLeish

Poet

Born: 1892-05-07

Died: 1982-04-20

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times.More