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Archibald MacLeish
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Archibald MacLeish
Age: 89 †
Born: 1892
Born: May 7
Died: 1982
Died: April 20
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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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A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.
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A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.
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There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
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A poem should not mean but be.
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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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The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.
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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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The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.
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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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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
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Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.
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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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Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
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The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
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What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.
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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
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To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.
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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
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If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.
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