Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeishChildren know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.
Archibald MacLeishAround, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
Archibald MacLeishAutumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.
Archibald MacLeish