Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

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.