Quotes by Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

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

Hate

Men

Sick

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Fruit

Poetry

Should

A poem should not mean but be.

Mean

Poetry

Should

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard — by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Apples

Boys

Real

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

Autumn

Country

Fall

Beauty is that Medusa’s head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Forever

Medusa

Men

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.

Football

Sports

Wisdom

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

Dignity

Men

Personal Dignity

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can’t be heard.

Concerts

Occasional

Spots

If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations, it never should have been published.

Explanation

Should Have

Writing

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4th Of July

Acceptance

America

Answers

Apples

Atheism

Autumn

Beach

Beautiful

Beauty

Being Happy

Blue

Book

Boys

Breakfast

Brother

Character

Cities

Concerts

Country

Dancing

Dark

Death

Demand

Dignity

Discovery

Dream

Events

Explanation

Fall

Feelings

Flames

Football

Forever

Freedom

Fruit

Frustration

Happiness

Hate

Horse

House

Humans

Hurt

Ignorance

Inspirational

Journalism

Journey

Kissing

Liberty

Looks

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Quotes by Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

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

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

A poem should not mean but be.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard — by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Beauty is that Medusa’s head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

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.

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

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can’t be heard.

If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations, it never should have been published.

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