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A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.
Archibald MacLeish
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Archibald MacLeish
Age: 89 †
Born: 1892
Born: May 7
Died: 1982
Died: April 20
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The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.
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A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.
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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
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There are those, I know, 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.
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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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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
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The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
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Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
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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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History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
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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.
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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
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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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A poem should not mean but be.
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The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
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Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
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Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them new and born and fresh and wonderful.
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Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.
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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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