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Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. - Archibald MacLeish

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A poem should be palpable and mute / As a globed fruit, / Dumb / As old medallions to the thumb . . . / A poem should be equal to / Not true . . . / A poem should not mean / But be. - Archibald MacLeish

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

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

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