What did Archibald MacLeish mean by: A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA Copy
+ A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 25, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Sensory, Silence, Symbolism, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Feraz Zeid, June 1, 2023December 25, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Art, Life, Understanding, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations, it never should have been published. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Explanation, Writing, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Human, Love, Questions And Answers, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Hate, Sick, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn’s mouth. That’s all the mystery. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Death, Kissing, Mouths, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river. Feraz Zeid, August 3, 2023December 25, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Existence, Impermanence, Mortality, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Advertising, Self, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune! Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. Explain - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. Explain - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
