Today is the birthday of Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982), poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress (USA). He was one of the US expatriates in Paris during the 1920s. He was strongly influenced by the works of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. His epic poem Conquistador (1932) and Collected Poems (1952) both won Pulitzer Prizes, as did the verse play J.B. (1958). He is associated with the modernist school of poetry.
"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
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." - Archibald MacLeish
"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
"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
"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
"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists." - Archibald MacLeish
"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
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." - Archibald MacLeish
"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
"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 "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
"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists." - Archibald MacLeish
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