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Archibald MacLeish

librarian, poet, playwright, writer, university teacher, poet lawyer, lawyer

1892  – 1982

Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the United States, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years, MacLeish was the ninth Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

All Quotes by Archibald MacLeish

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“Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“Around, around the sun we go:”
— Archibald MacLeish
“A poem should not meanBut be.”
— 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, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“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
“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
“What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“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
“Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.”
— 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
“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
“If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“A poem should not mean”
— Archibald MacLeish
“And here face down beneath the sun”
— Archibald MacLeish
“And here face down beneath the sun”
— Archibald MacLeish
“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.”
— Archibald MacLeish
“And here face down beneath the sun”
— Archibald MacLeish