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Archibald MacLeish

(1892 - 1982 / Illinois)

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Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois, on May 7, 1892. First educated at Hotchkiss School, MacLeish later studied at Yale and Harvard Law School, where he was first in his class. Although he focused his studies on law, he also began writing poetry during this time. In 1916 he married Ada Hitchcock. more >>

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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), U.S. poet. "America Was Promises," (1940).

''Poets ... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.''

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), U.S. poet. repr. As "Art and Law" in Riders on Earth (1978). "Apologia," Harvard Law Review (Cambridge, June 1972).

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