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Archibald MacLeish

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. American poet writer and the Librarian of Congress; of the Modernist school; won three Pulitzer Prizes


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Quote Left What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading. Quote Right
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Quote Left We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. Quote Right
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Quote Left The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it. Quote Right
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