Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Archibald MacLeish — American Poet born on May 07, 1892, died on April 20, 1982

Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

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