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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4608/">Quotes by <em>Macleish, Archibald</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."

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"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold."

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

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"There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream."

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"Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words."

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

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"America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them."

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"The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it."

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

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"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."

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