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Archibald Macleish Quotes
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Hates
He
Lives
Loves
Man
Sick
Sick Man
Who
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
About
Cares
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Either
Football
He
Life
Man
Meet
No Reason
Notwithstanding
Poetry
Reason
Should
Two
Weight
Why
Wisdom
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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Accomplished
Action
Again
Always
Become
Democracy
Doing
Done
Gold
Goods
Must
Nation
Necessary
Never
Now
One Thing
Only
Piled
Something
Thing
Up
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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Dignity
Freedom
Man
Right
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Concerned
Events
Feel
Feelings
Journalism
Look
Poetry
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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Alone
Any
Every
Every Man
Everywhere
Had
Happened
He
Himself
Journalism
Like
Man
Occurrence
Only
Particular
Poetry
Presence
Same
Same Things
Say
Tell
Things
Though
Were
Wishes
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
American
Around
Blinds
Cities
Come
Come And Go
Counties
Day
Drawn
England
Faces
Gets
Go
Long
Louisiana
Many
Never
New
New England
Quite
Shade
Spring
Summer
Where
Will
Winds
Wyoming
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Business
Call
Confusion
Dignity
Even
Give
Human
Human Life
Law
Life
Make
Order
Possibility
Reduce
Same
Same Time
Scope
Sense
Time
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Being
Every
He
Herd
Himself
His
Human
Human Being
Life
Moments
Thinks
Those
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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
American
American Dream
Dream
Freedom
Humanity
Liberation
Man
Mind
Nothing
Right
Say
Those
Who
Will
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
American
American Dream
Dream
Freedom
Humanity
Know
Liberation
Man
Mind
Nothing
Reply
Right
Those
Who
Will
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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
Blue
Bright
Brothers
Cold
Earth
Eternal
Know
Loveliness
Now
Riders
See
Silence
Small
Together
Truly
Where
Who
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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.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Belief
Great
Greater
Human
Larger
Liberty
Only
Our
Ours
Ourselves
Than
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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Choice
God
Guilty
Innocent
No Choice
Unthinkable
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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Alternatives
Choice
Choose
Create
Freedom
Oneself
Right
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What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Anything
Anything Else
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Exists
Fact
Important
Library
More
Than
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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Burned
City
Felt
Flames
Houses
London
Our
You
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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
~ Archibald MacLeish
Experience
Learning
More
One Thing
Only
Only One Thing
Painful
Than
Thing
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Archibald MacLeish
Profession
Poet
BirthDate
07 May, 1892
DeathDate
20 April, 1982
Country
United States
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