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> [Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/writers-write-to-give-reality-to-experience/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

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## More by Archibald MacLeish

> [Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/never-in-all-their-history-have-men-been-able-truly-to-conceive-of/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/how-shall-freedom-be-defended-by-arms-when-it-is-attacked-by-arms-by/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/around-around-the-sun-we-go-the-moon-goes-round-the-earth-we-do-not/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/what-you-really-have-to-know-is-one-yourself-and-the-only-way-you-can/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/poets-are-literal-minded-men-who-will-squeeze-a-word-till-it-hurts/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [“American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/american-foreign-policy-was-a-mirror-image-of-russian-foreign-policy/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/to-separate-journalism-and-poetry-therefore-history-and-poetry-to-set/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/you-burned-the-city-of-london-in-our-houses-and-we-felt-the-flames/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/the-infantile-cowardice-of-our-time-which-demands-an-external-pattern/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/races-didn-t-bother-the-americans-they-were-something-a-lot-better/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/young-poets-are-advised-by-their-elders-to-avoid-the-practice-of/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/there-are-those-i-know-who-will-reply-that-the-liberation-of-humanity/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/what-is-freedom-freedom-is-the-right-to-choose-the-right-to-create/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [A poem should not mean but be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/a-poem-should-not-mean-but-be/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

> [What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/what-once-was-cuddled-must-learn-to-kiss-the-cold-wonn-s-mouth-that-s/)

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