Archibald Macleish: Man

Archibald Macleish was American poet and Librarian of Congress. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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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.”

Archibald Macleish
Horse

“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 of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.”

Archibald Macleish

Return from the Excursion, Riders on Earth (1978)

Life , World , Idea

“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

Moonlighting on Yale Field, Riders on Earth (1978)

Life , Wisdom , Football