Cold Quote 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…

— 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…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— 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…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— 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,…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

— 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.…

— Archibald MacLeish