What did Archibald MacLeish mean by: A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA Copy
+ If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations, it never should have been published. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Authenticity, Creativity, Interpretation, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ A poem should not mean but be. Author, September 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Existence, Meaning, Poetry, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Beauty, Perspective, Silence, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ A world ends when its metaphor has died. Author, June 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Change, Metaphor, Perception, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, America, Hope, Promises, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Inquiry, Knowledge, Uncertainty, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Human, Love, Ultimate, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Freedom is the right to one’s dignity as a man. Author, August 15, 2023January 2, 2025, Archibald MacLeish, Dignity, Freedom, Humanity, 0 Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. George Henry Lewes Philosopher and literary critic · England
