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.
From Archibald MacLeish
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
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