Frases de Archibald Macleish
Archibald Macleish
Fecha de nacimiento: 7. Mayo 1892
Fecha de muerte: 20. Abril 1982
Otros nombres:Арчибальд Макліш
Archibald MacLeish , fue un poeta modernista y escritor estadounidense. Ganó en tres ocasiones el Premio Pulitzer.
Frases Archibald Macleish
„A poem should not meanBut be.“
— Archibald Macleish
Context: A poem should not mean
But be.
"Ars Poetica", [http://books.google.com/books?id=KI0ESFOvi5QC&q=%22A+poem+should+not+mean+But+be%22&pg=PA107#v=onepage Collected Poems, 1917-1982] (1985)
„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
"In Praise of Dissent", New York Times (16 December 1956)
„Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.“
— Archibald Macleish
"The American Cause", address delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts (November 20, 1940); reported in MacLeish, A Time to Act; Selected Addresses (1943), p. 115
„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.“
— Archibald Macleish
Moonlighting on Yale Field, Riders on Earth (1978)
„To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold — brothers who know now they are truly brothers.“
— Archibald Macleish
As quoted in Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address (20 January 1969)
„If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God.“
— Archibald Macleish
As quoted in The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012) by Howard Bloom
„What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.“
— Archibald Macleish
"The Premise Of Meaning" in American Scholar (5 June 1972)
„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
Now Let Us Address the Main Question: Bicentennial of What?, New York Times (3 July 1976)
