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Archibald MacLeish
American
Poet
Born:
May 7
,
1892
Died:
Apr 20
,
1982
Choice
Dignity
Freedom
Life
Man
Will
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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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