Quote by Archibald MacLeish
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived

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. – Archibald MacLeish

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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There are those, I know, 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. – Archibald MacLeish

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. – Thomas Hobbes

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