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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

Topics: Blue Bright Brothers Cold Earth Eternal Know Loveliness Now Riders See Silence Small Together Truly Where Who

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There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: American American Dream Dream Freedom Humanity Know Liberation Man Mind Nothing Reply Right Those Who Will

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

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Everything Everything Else Exists Fact Important Library More Than

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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 is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Alone Any Every Every Man Everywhere Had Happened He Himself Journalism Like Man Occurrence Only Particular Poetry Presence Same Same Things Say Tell Things Though Were Wishes

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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

Topics: Been Censor Contrary Convinced Hold Just Moment Once Opinions Own Permit Silence Superior Suppress Those Who You

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A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Hates He Lives Loves Man Sick Who

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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 possibility, scope, even dignity.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Business Call Confusion Dignity Even Give Human Human Life Law Life Make Order Possibility Reduce Same Same Time Scope Sense Time

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

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Experience Learning More One Thing Only Only One Thing Painful Than Thing

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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

Topics: Being Every He Herd Himself His Human Human Being Life Moments Thinks Those

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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.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Concerned Events Feel Feelings Journalism Look Poetry World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 7th, 1892

Died: April 20th, 1982

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