Archibald MacLeish

“To see the world as the world is, is the only way to see the world as poetry.”

“The function of the writer is to make sense of life. It is his business to find the shape in things.”

“The thing about the American dream is that you have to be asleep to believe it.”

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

“The purpose of art is to praise life.”

“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

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