Stephen Vincent Benét ✓

(1898–1943) screenwriter

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[Wikidata] American poet, short story writer, novelist (1898–1943)... | [Wikipedia] Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in

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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. Honesty
• Dreaming men are haunted men. Dream
• 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… America
• We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Funny
• Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds. Acts
• The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground. Art
• 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
• Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. Bury
• 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… American
• I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more… Any
• Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. Armed
• Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and… Best
• We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Inspirational
• When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes. All
• You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better. Better
• 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… Block
• As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish. Calling
• 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… Alive
• Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war,… Choose
• I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. American
• I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when… Been
• If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians. Country
• Books are not men and yet they are alive. Alive
• 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
• One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. Balance

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