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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 20 quotes by Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish Born (1892-05-07)May 7, 1892 Glencoe, Illinois Died April 20, 1982(1982-04-20) (aged 89) Boston, Massachusetts Nationality American Other names Archie, Archie MacLeish Occupation Poet, playwright, essayist, Librarian of Congress, lawyer Known for Poetry, drama, essays, librarianship Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated... Read full biography of Archibald MacLeish → 1 2 Ctrl → What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. 0 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... → 0 What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. 0 Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. 0 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.... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. 0 The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. 0 Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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