Abstractions are wonderfully clever tools for taking things apart and for arranging things in patterns but they are very little use in putting things together and no use at all when it comes to determining what things are for.


Why Do We Teach Poetry?, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 197, Number 3, March, 1956 (p. 51)

Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Abstractions are wonderfully clever tools for taking things apart and for arranging things in patterns but they are very little use in putting things ...

Abstractions are wonderfully clever tools for taking things apart and for arranging things in patterns but they are very little use in putting things ...

Abstractions are wonderfully clever tools for taking things apart and for arranging things in patterns but they are very little use in putting things ...

Abstractions are wonderfully clever tools for taking things apart and for arranging things in patterns but they are very little use in putting things ...