Macleish

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    A poem should not mean
    But be.
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    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 (1892–1982)