Archibald MacLeish Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

• Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Feelings, Events, Looks

  Archibald MacLeish (1968). “A continuing journey”

• To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Opposites, Acting, Realization

• Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Practice, Breakfast, Journalism

• Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Wish, Journalism

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