Best Archibald MacLeish Quotes
- You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. Burned
- A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. Advertising
- What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others.… Around Asking
- What once was cuddled must learn to kiss, The cold worm's mouth. That's all the mystery. All
- We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know. All
- The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.… America
- Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. Animal
- The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. Defence
- Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. Hurt
- A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Fruit
- A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. Bird
- Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's… Book
- Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Alive
- If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot… Art
- Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at… Been
- There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. Clever
- Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never… American
- Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,… Acceptance
- The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or… Everything Else
- A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for,… Apple
- A poem should not mean but be. Inspirational
- There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass. Dawn
- Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of… Alternatives
- To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders… Beautiful
- There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They… American