“ Around, around the sun we go:The moon goes round the earth.We do not die of death:We die of vertigo. Archibald MacLeish
“ What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex Archibald MacLeish
“ To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism. Archibald MacLeish
“ If God is God He is not good,If God is good He is not God;Take the even, take the odd.... Archibald MacLeish
“ What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. 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 Archibald MacLeish
“ The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. 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] Archibald MacLeish
“ There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. 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 inter… Archibald MacLeish
“ When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it Report to Greco... Kazantzakis thought of himself as a soldier reporting to his commanding officer o… Archibald MacLeish
“ Tell me, my patient friends, awaiters of messages.From what other shore, from what stranger,Whence, was the word to come? Who was to lesson you?Listeners under a child’s crib in a manger,Listeners onc… Archibald MacLeish
“ What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
“ 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. Archibald MacLeish
