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.

Quote by Archibald MacLeish

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

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

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

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be...

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and...

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and...

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man...

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived...

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in...

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our...

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our...