Archibald MacLeish

“Beauty is that which is intended for itself, and not for the reason.”

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

“America is promises to us all.”

“To see the world as it is, is to see what is probable, and that is truly poetic.”

“The purpose of art is to praise life.”

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

“An act of poetry is an act of liberation.”