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Category: Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth’s noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

andrew-marvell, death, night, poem, poet, poetry

Archibald MacLeish

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

archibald-macleish, death, mother-goose-s-garland, vertigo

Archibald MacLeish

As things are now going, the peace we will make, the 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.

Archibald MacLeish

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

creativity, criticism, literature, poetry, theory

Archibald MacLeish

As things are now going, the peace we will make, the 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.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important to a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.”, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

books, knowledge, libraries, reading

Archibald MacLeish

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

A poem should not meanBut be.

Archibald MacLeish

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth’s noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

andrew-marvell, death, night, poem, poet, poetry

Archibald MacLeish

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

archibald-macleish, death, mother-goose-s-garland, vertigo