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Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

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Archibald MacLeish
Age: 89 †
Born: 1892
Born: May 7
Died: 1982
Died: April 20
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Illinois
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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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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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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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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.
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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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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
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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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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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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
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A poem should not mean but be.
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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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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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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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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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What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
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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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A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.
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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
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