Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.


A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish (ed. Boston, Mifflin, 1940)

Archibald MacLeish Quotes

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.