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.
Source: In Rockefeller University Forum, Heaven and Earth and the Cage of Form, Jan.-Feb. 1968.
-- Archibald MacLeish, (May 7 1892-1982), US poet, playwright, teacher, public official; His concern for liberal democracy figured in much of his work, although his most memorable lyrics are of a more private nature.