Quotes by Archibald Macleish

Archibald Macleish

American poet

Lived from: 1892 - 1982

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 7 may 1892 Died: 20 april 1982

  • 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.

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  • 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 on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
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  • A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
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  • America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
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  • 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.
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  • Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
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  • Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
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  • 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.
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  • Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
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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.
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  • 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 that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
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  • 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 quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
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  • 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. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
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  • 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.
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  • The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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  • There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
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  • 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.
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  • We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
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  • What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
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  • What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
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  • What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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What are the most famous quotes from Archibald Macleish?

The two most famous quotes from Archibald Macleish are:

  • "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 on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night - brothers who see now they are truly brothers."
  • "A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man."

When did Archibald Macleish live?

Archibald Macleish was born in 1892 and died in the year 1982.