Conventional wisdom Quote by Archibald MacLeish

“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.”

Archibald MacLeish

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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.

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Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

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The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

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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,…

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Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

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