I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Fallen Copy Share Image
I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me. — Stephen Vincent Benet Boots Copy Share Image
I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium. — Stephen Vincent Benet Blog Copy Share Image
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. — Stephen Vincent Benet Done Copy Share Image
“Of all the Christbitten places in the two hemispheres, (Los Angeles) is the last curly kink in the pig's tail.” — Stephen Vincent Benet Los angeles Copy Share Image
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 Cities Copy Share Image
“When the last moonshiner buys his radio, And the last, lost, wild-rabbit of a girl Is civilized with a mail-order dress, Something… — Stephen Vincent Benét American movies Copy Share Image
Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked… — Stephen Vincent Benet Book Copy Share Image
Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol… — Stephen Vincent Benet Ancient Copy Share Image
Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let… — Stephen Vincent Benet Consciously Copy Share Image
Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet… — Stephen Vincent Benet Astronomy Copy Share Image
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot… — Stephen Vincent Benet Exciting Copy Share Image
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring… — Stephen Vincent Benet Death Copy Share Image
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 Broads Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Essays Copy Share Image
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts… — Stephen Vincent Benet Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my… — Stephen Vincent Benet Block Copy Share Image
When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can… — Stephen Vincent Benet Intensity Copy Share Image
It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Advantage Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Catalyst Copy Share Image
It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days,… — Stephen Vincent Benet I have learned Copy Share Image
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Containers Copy Share Image
At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other… — Stephen Vincent Benet Blog Copy Share Image
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 Doe Copy Share Image
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word… — Stephen Vincent Benet Black Copy Share Image
Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Assuming Copy Share Image
American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Art Copy Share Image
Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my… — Stephen Vincent Benet America Copy Share Image
Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken… — Stephen Vincent Benet Begins Copy Share Image
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Body Copy Share Image
