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Inspirational Quotes by Archibald MacLeish
- Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
- What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
- We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is…
- Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
- Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
- Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
- If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
- A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
- We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.
- A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.
- There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
- A poem should not mean but be.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento