Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

May

Phrases

Writing

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

Calling

England

Luck

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.

Book

Learning

Memories

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

Hell

Knows

Men

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying “I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough.”

Light

Pain

Years

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

Brotherhood

Deeds

Years

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

Attention

Giving

World

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Homesickness

Muse

Tired

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

Boots

Pioneers

Sky

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

Fallen

Fats

Names

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Boots

Brotherhood

Calling

Country

Deeds

Doe

Done

Dying

England

Faces

Facts

Fallen

Fats

Fighting

Fire

Flesh

Form

Gentleman

Georgia

Giving

Graduates

Hate

Hell

Home

Homesickness

Interesting

Knowledge

Knows

Layers

Learning

Life

Light

Littles

Long

Luck

May

Memories

Men

Muse

Names

Needs

Opaque

Pages

Pain

Peace

People

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Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

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

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

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