Quotes by : Archibald MacLeish

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what....

We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to....

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it....

Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

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

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote....

When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it Report....

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