Vincent Benet Quotes
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Of all the Christbitten places in the two hemispheres, (Los Angeles) is the last curly kink in the pig's tail.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Something begins, begins;Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroadIn flesh and spirit and fire.Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
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
I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
When Daniel Boone goes by at nightThe phantom deer arise
And all lost, wild America
Is burning in their eyes. — Stephen Vincent Benet
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
I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Dreaming men are haunted men.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
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
Books are not men and yet they are alive.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned — Stephen Vincent Benet
The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
Seine and Piave are silver spoons,But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn — Stephen Vincent Benet
Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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
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
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Life was a storm to wander through.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
— Stephen Vincent Benet