Who is Archibald Macleish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the US, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years MacLeish was Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, MacLeish was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. MacLeish was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.Early years MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois. His father, Scottish-born Andrew MacLeish, w...
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Archibald Macleish Poems
- The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak
The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
who has not heard them? ... - Hypocrite Auteur
mon semblable, mon frère
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Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction
In that perspective of the action ... - Definition Of The Frontiers
First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses or falling away or surges of air as is usual but rather like the persistent pressure of a river or a running tide.
This wind is from the other side and has an odor unlike the odor of the winds with us but like time if time had odor and were cold and carried a bitter and sharp taste like rust on the taste of snow or the fragrance of thunder.
... - Autumn
Sun smudge on
the smoky water
... - The Rock In The Sea
Think of our blindness where the water burned!
Are we so certain that those wings, returned
And turning, we had half discerned
Before our dazzled eyes had surely seen ...
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Night 11 Sea 10 Water 10 World 9 Dark 9 Sun 9 Wind 8 Earth 7 Long 7 Light 7Archibald Macleish Quotes
- 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.
- 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. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness.
Comments about Archibald Macleish
- Alexxguss: ars poetica archibald macleish a poem should be palpable and mute as a globed fruit, dumb as old medallions to the thumb, silent as the sleeve-worn stone of casement ledges where the moss has grown— a poem should be wordless as the flight of birds.
- Ravibutalia: "there is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." archibald macleish [cat - centre for alternative technology, wales, june 2013]
- Redfieldarts: free programs! current on the redfield arts audio podcast: “the fall of the city” by archibald macleish “anna christie” act 1 by eugene o’neill
- Gautdray: “freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. without the exercise of choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” —archibald macleish
- Alfaheds3od: "there is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." ~ archibald macleish
