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