Archibald Macleish Quotes

“Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.”
― Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“It is the strategy of truth, the simple and clarifying truths by which a nation such as ours must guide itself. The strategy of truth is not because it deals in truth devoid of strategy, it is not enough in this war of hoaxes and delusions and perpetuated lies to be merely honest. It is necessary also, to be wise. - A quote by Archibald MacLeish included in Chapter 6: Berlin Calling”
― Jill Lepore, Who Killed Truth?: A History of Evidence