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Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Dreaming men are haunted men."

Dreaming men are haunted men.




Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways..."

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word."

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.




Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth."

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name."

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat."

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.




Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity."

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat."

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn"

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land."

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Books are not men and yet they are alive."

Books are not men and yet they are alive.




Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart."

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in."

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds."

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with."

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory."

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes."

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things."

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page."

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground."

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust."

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!"

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast."

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I am tired of loving a foreign muse."

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff."

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs."

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such."

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion."

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms."

The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped."

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium."

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets."

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!"

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst."

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men."

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better."

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me."

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I had lost something in my youth and made money instead."

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians."

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia."

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me."

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish."

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity."

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Life was a storm to wander through."

Life was a storm to wander through.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold."

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world."

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.



Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes: "Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it."

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.