It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish. ” The main Republican arguments against MacLeish’s nomination from within Congress was: that he was a poet and was a “fellow traveler” or sympathetic to communist causes. In this case Huntington wanted the poet Joseph Auslander to be named to the position.

He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry.