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Archibald MacLeish Quotes: Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
         

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.


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

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



Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.



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

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



As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.



There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.



A poem should not mean but be.

A poem should not mean but be.





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Imagination governs the world.



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I don't like Paradise, As they probably don't have obsessions there.



You taught me to love the dark, Aidan. If that 's wrong, then I'm already damned.

You taught me to love the dark, Aidan. If that 's wrong, then I'm already damned.



People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there!

People just don't understand, they aren't your level and they won't get there soon. So move because you will fall from there!



I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.



Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.



I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.



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I'm really into natural and organic products.



If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.



So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.




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