Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Mr Morgan struck me as a healthy and childish Britisher probably inhabiting the early 19th century.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

Poets…are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night—brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.

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