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
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
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Admire 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
Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even… — Stephen Vincent Benet Defeat Copy Share Image
I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw… — Stephen Vincent Benet Captives 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
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 Blogging 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
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my… — Stephen Vincent Benet Bird Copy Share Image
The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what… — Stephen Vincent Benet Blogs 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
Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Hills 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
You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better. — Stephen Vincent Benet Gentleman 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
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. — Stephen Vincent Benet Balance Copy Share Image
The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Flea markets 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
I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet… — Stephen Vincent Benet Bonnets Copy Share Image
