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Archibald MacLeish - From the Authority category:
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Books category:
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Earth category:
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Experience category:
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Freedom category:
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Humanity category:
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Life category:
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Originality category:
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Plagiarism category:
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard - by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Poetry category:
A poem should not mean, / But be. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Poetry category:
If the poem can be improved by its author's explanations it never should have been published. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Questions category:
We have learned the answers, all the answers: / It is the question that we do not know. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Words category:
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. (Archibald MacLeish)
Archibald MacLeish - From the Writing category:
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. (Archibald MacLeish)
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