Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
Topics: Reading, Books
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
Topics: Death, Caring, Life, Carpe-diem, The Present, Living, Dying, Yin
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
Topics: Honesty
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
Topics: Power, Wisdom
Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peacethat he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
Its a Story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Danl Websters deador, at least, they buried him. But every time theres a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, Danl WebsterDanl Webster! the groundll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while youll hear a deep voice saying, Neighbor, how stands the Union? Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or hes liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, thats what I was told when I was a youngster.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Mark Van Doren American Poet, Critic
- Wendell Berry American Author, Environmentalist
- John Updike American Author
- Conrad Aiken American Poet, Novelist
- Richard Wright American Novelist, Short-Story Writer
- Raymond Chandler American Novelist
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
- Langston Hughes American Poet, Writer
- L. Frank Baum American Writer
- Paul Auster American Novelist, Poet
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