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You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Burned City Felt Flames Houses London Our You

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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. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: American Around Blinds Cities Come Come And Go Counties Day Drawn England Faces Gets Go Long Louisiana Many Never New New England Quite Shade Spring Summer Where Will Winds Wyoming

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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Dignity Freedom Man Right

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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

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

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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

Topics: About Cares Conventional Conventional Wisdom Either Football He Life Man Meet No Reason Notwithstanding Poetry Reason Should Two Weight Why Wisdom Words

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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

Topics: Absurd Better His Ideas Life Lived Man May More Opposite Than Whatever World Worse

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

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Alternatives Choice Choose Create Freedom Oneself Right

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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Accomplished Action Again Always Become Democracy Doing Done Gold Goods Must Nation Necessary Never Now One Thing Only Piled Something Thing Up

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

~Archibald Macleish

Topics: Choice God Guilty Innocent No Choice Unthinkable

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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

Topics: Belief Great Greater Human Larger Liberty Only Our Ours Ourselves Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 7th, 1892

Died: April 20th, 1982

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