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Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish
American Poet
Born: May 7, 1892
Died: Apr 20, 1982
Choice Dignity Freedom Life Man Will
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Silence You Superior Own Once Those Citadel Has-Been Suppress Opinions Permit Been Contrary Just Censor Hold Convinced Moment Who
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
Life Human Being Every Herd Those He Himself His Human Being Momentarily Moments Thinks
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. Archibald MacLeish
Man Sick Sick Man Hates He Loves Who Lives
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
Silence Together Cold Earth See Brothers Small Know Truly Blue Where Loveliness Eternal Who Riders Floats Bright Now
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. Archibald MacLeish
Learning Experience One Thing More Only Only One Thing Than Painful Thing
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
Library Important Else Everything Everything Else More Fact Exists Than Anything Anything Else
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. Archibald MacLeish
Freedom Man Dignity Right
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Archibald MacLeish
Freedom Oneself Alternatives Create Choice Choose Right
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. Archibald MacLeish
God Innocent Guilty No Choice Unthinkable Choice
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
Life Wisdom Man Words Cares Meet About Poetry No Reason Football Weight He Conventional Conventional Wisdom Either Should Notwithstanding Reason Why Two
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
Freedom Man Humanity Mind Will Nothing Say Liberation Those Dream American American Dream Who Right
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
World Events Feelings Poetry Journalism Feel Look Concerned
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
Life Man World Better Whatever Worse More Absurd Ideas Opposite His Than May Lived
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
Great Liberty Our Ours Ourselves Only Greater Than Human Belief Larger

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