And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
Tags: poetry death night poem poet andrew-marvell
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeishTo see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold — brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Archibald MacLeishWhat is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]
Tags: libraries reading books knowledge
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
Archibald MacLeishAround, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.
Tags: death vertigo archibald-macleish mother-goose-s-garland
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.
Archibald MacLeishThere is no dusk to be,
There is no dawn that was,
Only there's now, and now,
And the wind in the grass.
They also live
Who swerve and vanish in the river.
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.
Tags: betrayal fanatical-desire wanton-lust
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