Archibald MacLeish Citas

• Sólo hay una cosa más dolorosa que aprender de la experiencia, y es no aprender de ella.

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  Inspiración, Felicidad, Ser feliz

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

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  Democracy, Done, Nations

  Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

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• Una vez que se permite a quienes están convencidos de su propia superioridad censurar, silenciar y suprimir a quienes sostienen opiniones contrarias, justo en ese momento se ha rendido la ciudadela.

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  Freedom, Silence, Liberty

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• Un hombre que vive, no de lo que ama, sino de lo que odia, es un hombre enfermo.

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  Hate, Men, Sick

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• How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

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  Determination, Lying, Finals

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• The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

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  Horse, Men, Pigs

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• El disidente es todo ser humano en esos momentos de su vida en que renuncia momentáneamente al rebaño y piensa por sí mismo.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Patriotism

  "In Praise of Dissent". New York Times, December 16, 1956.

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• Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

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  Moon, Dying, Sun

  Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To see the earth as we now see it, small 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 unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Brother

  Riders on the Earth "Bubble of Blue Air" (1978)

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• Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Understanding, Alive

  Recalled on his death, 20 Apr1982.

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• We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

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  Atheism, Liberty, Belief

  1976 'Now Let Us Address The Main Question: Bicentennial of What?', in the NewYork Times, 3 Jul.

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• There are those, I know, 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.

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  Dream, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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

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  Choices, Innocence, Guilty

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

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  Gold, Democracy, Done

  Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

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• There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

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  Wind, Dawn, Grass

  Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

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  Love Is, Answers, Humans

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• What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

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  Ignorance, Discovery, World

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• The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

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  Mind, Silent, Should

  Archibald MacLeish (1940). “A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish”, Boston, Mifflin

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• A poem should not mean but be.

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  Mean, Poetry, Should

  "Ars Poetica" l. 23 (1926)

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• El hombre depende de Dios para todo: Dios depende del hombre para una. Sin el amor del hombre, Dios no existe como Dios, sólo como creador, y el amor es lo único que nadie, ni siquiera Dios mismo, puede ordenar. Es un don gratuito o no es nada. Y es más propio, más libre, cuando se ofrece a pesar del sufrimiento, de la injusticia y de la muerte. . . La justificación de la injusticia del universo no es nuestra aceptación ciega de la voluntad inexplicable de Dios, ni nuestra confianza en el amor de Dios, su amor oscuro e incomprensible, por nosotros, sino nuestro amor humano, a pesar de todo, por él.

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  Acceptance, Dark, Love Is

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• If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

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  Atheism, Odd, Positive Atheism

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

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  Atheism, Questions And Answers, Knows

  1928 'The Hamlet of A. MacLeish'.

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• Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

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  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• 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.

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  Art, Mean, Sight

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• The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

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  Beauty, Men, Tasks

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