Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

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.