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…

Quote by Archibald MacLeish

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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...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

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...

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...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

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.

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...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

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...

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...

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...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an...

I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an...

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association...

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association...