Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet (American Poet)

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War John Brown’s Body, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for the short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster” and “By the Waters of Babylon”. In 2009, The Library of America selected his story “The King of the Cats” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub.

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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

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