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gracewa59458041: What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex,Archibald MacLeish,books, knowledge, libraries, reading,

SaysGate: Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions of ourselves. It is at its worst when it deludes us into thinking we have all the answers for everybody else. Archibald Macleish

CarolineFannin3: “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.” Art and Law, Riders on Earth (1978) Archibald MacLeish poet, playwright, lawyer, and American statesman.

NepoWiki: Laura Dern has 2 blue-linker parent(s): Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd --confirmed nepo baby-- and 3 blue-linker relative(s): George Dern, Andrew MacLeish and Archibald MacLeish

BobLDark: "Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments" by Archibald MacLeish

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

JamesDN10: “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

laurasinbsl: The End Of The World by Archibald MacLeish - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

rarebookman: Unbound Sheets of Archibald MacLeish's AMERICA WAS PROMISES, 1939 First Edition. Unbound and uncut sheets of this book-length poem emphasizing that America can no longer wait for promises to come true. Fine. $100

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

rarebookman: SIGNED Archibald MacLeish THE IRRESPONSIBLES on the failure of scholars and writers to oppose the rise of destructive forces 1940. First Edition. About Fine in price-clipped close to Fine dj. $100

rgtrendsetter: 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 RALPHGAIL TeenClashScreening

todpetty: There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.~Poet Archibald MacLeish Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish stu…

TrueLasting3989: To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways... (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.,Archibald MacLeish,betrayal, fanatical-desire, wanton-lust,

MelanieJaxn: What is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish

twilitghost: anyways "ars poetica" by archibald macleish one of my new fave poems tbh

ChairAndyBau: “A poem should be wordless    As the flight of birds.” -Archibald MacLeish

CarlosE59436105: "Over us on these silent beaches the bright earth, presence among us." --Archibald MacLeish for The New York Times, July 21, 1969

rshowmar: “There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” - Archibald MacLeish

Ziggyplaydguitr: From "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish: A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown-- A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

shalongUBX: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

atiryashak: it is you who must say this They say, We leave you our deaths: give them their meaning: give them an end to the war and a true peace: give them a victory that ends the war and a peace afterwards: give them their meaning. (Archibald MacLeish)

harveyjkaye: Believe America is promises to Take!   America is promises to  Us To take them  Brutally  With love but Take Them. Oh believe this!         – Archibald MacLeish, America was Promises, 1939

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

lucelucidor: A poem should not mean But be. Archibald MacLeish

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

JMDReid: “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

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

YvonneCraves: "Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered." — Archibald MacLeish

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

ProverbialSoups: 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

ProverbialSoups: 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

ProverbialSoups: To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue 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 eternal cold — brothers who know now they are truly brothers. Archibald MacLeish

Godgift64107811: 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 kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: 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 kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

MrGoldstein7: He was a composer by training (but not a very good one), and we are told he came to America thanks to Archibald MacLeish to work on their opera Union Pacifc. that link to Stein and MacLeish should be enough to peg the Nabokovs, but I have a bit more to say.

MrGoldstein7: Archibald MacLeish said of his father: “My father came from a very old country in the north and far away, and he belonged to an old strange race, the race older than any other.”

MrGoldstein7: Archibald MacLeish was, on the surface, a most accomplished man— a lawyer turned poet who won the Pulitzer Prize twice for his (crappy) poetry, wrote for Fortune and The New Republic, served as Librarian of Congress (1939-44), ...

MrGoldstein7: Archibald MacLeish married Ada Hitchcock, whose genealogy is fully scrubbed. But we have seen the Hitchcocks before—one of the families as well.

MrGoldstein7: I've learned to be very suspicious of Archibald MacLeish and anyone who associated with him, and of course, we find Bob Dylan.

MrGoldstein7: Archibald MacLeish’s father Andrew MacLeish— a dry goods merchant from Scotland— co-founded the University of Chicago with John D Rockefeller.

Globalappi: 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 - USA poet and writer

Globalappi: 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

Globalappi: WESTMINSTER HALL LONDON 8 FEBRUARY 2023 -History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. Archibald MacLeish - USA poet and writer

aled_job: 'The dissident is every human being at those moments in his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself'. Archibald MacLeish. US poet and writer.

Peter_Haugen: And what about the earthquake in Turkey/Syria? As Archibald MacLeish wrote, “If God is great, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God.”

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

AncientWisdomHQ: "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue 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 eternal cold." - Archibald MacLeish

CerebralWisdom: Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald Macleish

CallsMind: The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. - Archibald MacLeish

CiteSeer: "Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man." - Archibald MacLeish

NepoWiki: Laura Dern has 2 blue-linker parent(s): Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd --confirmed nepo baby-- and 3 blue-linker relative(s): George Dern, Andrew MacLeish and Archibald MacLeish

JoyceCarolOates: (“But at my back I hear/ Archibald MacLeish hovering near.”)

lonesometoast: wholly agree with this (and, it's one reason why it's edifying to read the Book of Job alongside Archibald MacLeish's J.B. )

johnstonglenn: Theodore Spencer died OTD in 1949. His successors as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard included Archibald MacLeish and Seamus Heaney. He wrote an introduction for Stephen Hero when it was published by New Directions in 1944.

UkraineAlly: give them a victory that ends the war and a peace afterwards: give them their meaning. We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us. Poem credit: Archibald Macleish, 1940 RIP all Brave Ukrainian Soldiers

whatsthat: “Men usually find what’s waiting for them in the mind: It’s what they dream of picking that they pluck.” -Two Women Talking, Archibald MacLeish

BeineckeLibrary: Letter : 1941 January 9, John Dos Passos to Archibald MacLeish From: Dudley Poore papers

ortegabrothers: The ear is the poet's perfect Audience -- Archibald Macleish

MaryannCorbett: Was gobsmacked a few days ago by an Archibald MacLeish poem, so hunted up the library's copy of his collected. Finding gems that aren't often anthologized. This one is even more searing if you know that Matthiessen was gay and that his partner had died a few years before.

TheStoryofWith: "Anything can make us look; only art can make us see." - poet Archibald MacLeish

DustinTriplett: "There always was a relationship between poet and place. Placeless poetry, existing in the non-geography of ideas, is a modern invention and not a very fortunate one." - Archibald MacLeish

cengsteve: The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind. The rest you can find in a pig or horse! ~Archibald Macleish~

rhepstein1: I am pleased to note that the end of the world trend has nothing to do with Archibald MacLeish.

Rickillades: “The secret to happiness is freedom; and the secret of freedom, courage.” - Archibald MacLeish

DonPJenn: "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." Archibald MacLeish

hadassahhannah: I remain a huge fan of "J.B." by Archibald MacLeish.

tisa_nacional: Former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. did not plagiarize American poet, statesman and writer Archibald Macleish’s quote on freedom. He had attributed it in a speech he never got to deliver. My latest (and first fact-check haha):

sassysashalo: "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." --Archibald MacLeish JONAmazing SGKidsFinale

dig_old: Richard Thompson – Rumor And Sigh (Capitol) 1991 A proper fact: the US spelling of the word "Rumor" is because the title came from a posthumously published poem by Archibald MacLeish: "Rumor and sigh of unimagined seas/ Dim radiance of stars that never flamed." >

4_second_40: The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage. - Archibald MacLeish

renatrigiorese: From Broderick’s The architecture of Babel. A poem should not mean, but be, in Archibald MacLeish’s aphorism: more precisely, its meaning resides in its enactment, like a kiss. By contrast an equation or a theorem means above all. It exists only to mean, like a finger pointing.

Eric_Mabius: His words are helping the miles melt into my rear-view’s curved horizon: Archibald MacLeish reads his Poetry

attyfrancis1: Fact check: Ninoy was not the original author, Ninoy copied it from Archibald Macleish

engeetw: What runs, / swirling and leaping into sun, is stone’s / refusal of the river, not the river. — Archibald MacLeish

CallsMind: Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there. - Archibald MacLeish

NJWindow: The post I paid attention was Archibald Macleish's "Religion is at its best when..."

Nina08250824: UNESCO’s Constitution was written by Archibald MacLeish, a Skull and Bones member. One of many organizations under UNESCO is SIECUS.

lynnevaei19: “A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.” ~ Archibald MacLeish

chandlerkeyes: "The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind, everything else, you can find in a pig." - Archibald MacLeish

ElocinPress: “A poem should not mean but be.” Archibald MacLeish

norts1946: “We were young. We have died. Remember us.” From “The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak” by Archibald MacLeish

FallingMelilots: My teacher talked about the poem “Calypso’s Island” by Archibald MacLeish. If you guys are into poems then I suggest taking a look at it

narratives_asu: "Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing." —Archibald MacLeish. Have you witnessed an attack on democracy in your community? Share your experience at:

ScottAndPark: In 1935, Baoth died unexpectedly of meningitis, a complication of the measles, and Patrick succumbed to TB in 1937.  Archibald MacLeish based the main characters in his play J.B. on Gerald and Sara Murphy.

TheSacredFlame: Monday, 7 Nov 2022 * * * Archibald MacLeish (Poet), on Human Liberty

aliner: "And here face downward in the sun To feel how swift how secretly The shadow of the night comes on ..." - Archibald MacLeish (and Leonard Cohen humming it the background)

aliner: Love how Mark Strand refers to Archibald MacLeish's use of iambic pentameter without punctuation as an instance where form creates “an overriding infinitive, out of time but responsive to time."

DeadPoetsDaily: Ars Poetica on Dead Poets Daily

Vaka_astra: 52 Poems, Week 39: Epistle To Be Left In the Earth (Archibald MacLeish) - Light On Dark Water EPISTLE TO BE LEFT IN THE EARTH ...It is colder now, there are many stars, we are drifting North by the Great Bear, the leaves are falling...

Radlein: "You, Andrew Marvell," Archibald MacLeish, 1952 To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night

hadeejasouffle: sorry, Laura Dern is related to the poet Archibald MacLeish??

undespicableice: The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind, everything else you can find In a pig or a horse -Archibald MacLeish

CallsMind: Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. - Archibald MacLeish

doug_marco: ““Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.” ― Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917-1982 Christoph Niemann illustration

at_oasis: Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. PS. - Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems

LtColFranklin: Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. -Archibald MacLeish

ownbusinesses: Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. -Archibald MacLeish

DarylDoc22: Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. -Archibald MacLeish



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