If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how … - Archibald MacLeish

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This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.

Archibald MacLeish

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

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How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

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The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

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