Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

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

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

A poem should not meanBut be.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

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

We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

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.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.