Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth. — Stephen Vincent Benet Deer Copy Share Image
I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“There is a wilderness we walk alone However well-companioned” — Stephen Vincent Benét Life-s-journey Copy Share Image
Life is not lost -dying; life is lost minute -minute, day -dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. — Stephen Vincent Benet Death Copy Share Image
Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! — 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
You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
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 Country 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 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
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 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
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
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 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 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
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
“It's time to walk to the cider mill Through air like apple wine, And watch the moon rise over the hill, stinging… — Stephen Vincent Benet Moon rise 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 Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues… — Stephen Vincent Benet Cities Copy Share Image
Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an… — Stephen Vincent Benet Bread Copy Share Image
Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I… — Stephen Vincent Benet Blogs Copy Share Image
God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Alive Copy Share Image
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. — Stephen Vincent Benet Children Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now… — Stephen Vincent Benet Blogs 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
I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
