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 perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.....

As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,....

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

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe....

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.....

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

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