Death Quote by Archibald MacLeish — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“And here face down beneath the sun”

“A poem should not mean”

“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.”

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:”

“You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.”

“That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.”

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”