What did Archibald MacLeish mean by: If the poem can be improved by the author’s explanations, it never should have been published. - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA Copy
+ A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. Feraz Zeid, September 14, 2023December 24, 2023, Archibald MacLeish, Bird, Flight, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Philosophy, Speak, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Freedom is the right to one’s dignity as a man. Feraz Zeid, August 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Archibald MacLeish, Dignity, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Democracy, Nations, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Archibald MacLeish, Fruit, Poetry, 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
+ We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Archibald MacLeish, Choices, Guilty, Innocence, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
+ Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. Feraz Zeid, June 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Archibald MacLeish, Alive, Art, 0 - Archibald MacLeish Poet · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
