Archibald Macleish: Quotes about life

Archibald Macleish was American poet and Librarian of Congress. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“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)

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

Archibald Macleish

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

“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”

Archibald Macleish

Art and Law, Riders on Earth (1978)

“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)