If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
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,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
