Archibald MacLeish Quotes
We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
A poem should not meanBut be.
And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onT...
Show MoreAround, 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...
Show MoreWhat is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of...
Show MoreThere are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing...
Show MoreThe perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent...
Show MoreAround around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of verti...
Show MoreA real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing ...
Show MoreWhen he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it ...
Show MoreThe business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it ...
Show MoreWe 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...
Show MoreFreedom 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...
Show MoreWhat is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...
Show MoreWhat is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...
Show MoreAs 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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