Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

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    America is promises to
    Take!
    America is promises to
    Us
    To take them
    Brutally
    With love but
    Take them.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    It is the human season on this sterile air
    Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
    I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.

    I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    Nor now the long light on the sea—
    And here face downward in the sun
    To feel how swift how secretly
    The shadow of the night comes on . . .
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
    There in the sudden blackness the black pall
    Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.
    Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)