Archibald MacLeish Quotes
American - Poet May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald MacLeish

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

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

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
Archibald MacLeish

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Archibald MacLeish

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

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

Only a third of the page and the rest is just as good.