Quotes by Archibald MacLeish

“As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief... without moral purpose or human in...”

“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 sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night”

“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”

“A poem should not meanBut be.”

“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”

“We knock upon silence for an answering music.”

“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex”

“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.”

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

“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.”

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

“When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it Report to Greco... Kazantzakis thought of himself as a soldier reporting to his commanding office...”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the...”

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”