Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

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• Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
• Dreaming men are haunted men.
• 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…
• We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
• Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
• The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
• Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.
• Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
• 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…
• 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…
• Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
• 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…
• We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
• When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
• You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

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