"In that location is a wilderness we walk alone All the same well-companioned" ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost infinitesimal past minute, day by dragging twenty-four hour period, in all the chiliad small uncaring ways." ― Stephen Vincent Benét
"When Daniel Boone goes by at nighttime The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their optics." ― Stephen Vincent Benét
"Information technology'due south time to walk to the cider mill Through air like apple wine, And sentinel the moon rise over the hill, stinging and hard and fine.
It's time to bury your seed pods deep And let them await and exist warm. It's fourth dimension to slumber the heavy sleep That does non wake for the storm." ― Stephen Vincent Benet
"When the last moonshiner buys his radio, And the last, lost, wild-rabbit of a girl Is civilized with a mail-gild clothes, Something will laissez passer that was American And all the movies will not bring it dorsum." ― Stephen Vincent Benét
"I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall non lie easy at Winchelsea. Yous may coffin my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall non be there. I shall ascension and laissez passer. Coffin my centre at Wounded Knee" ― Stephen Vincent Benét
"Remember that when y'all say 'I volition have none of this exile and this stranger for his face up is non like my face and his oral communication is strange,' you lot accept denied America with that discussion." ― Stephen Vincent Benét
"Of all the Christbitten places in the 2 hemispheres, (Los Angeles) is the last curly kink in the pig's tail." ― Stephen Vincent Benet
"Truth is a hard honey to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Past the Waters of Babylon
"The emmet finds kingdoms in a foot of basis." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body
"Life is not lost by dying. Life is lost minute by infinitesimal, day by dragging twenty-four hour period..." ― Stephen V. Benet
"Books are non men and nevertheless they are live, they are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his nowadays and his past, the tools he builds with." ― Stephen Vincent Benét
"But then the money business concern began. Yous like to give a daughter presents when you're in dearest—you like to practice things right. Well, Lord knows, Eva was no gold-digger—she was as probable to exist pleased with a soda equally a pair of imported gloves. On the other hand, she was as likely to exist pleased with the gloves." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Glamour
"Oh, certain, he was a good business human being. I got that in a minute. But, underneath all the externals, they were the same kind. It hadn't anything to do with the faithfulness or meanness. They were just the aforementioned breed of cats. If you're a domestic dog and you fall in love with a true cat, that'due south but your difficult luck." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Glamour
"Residuum you, my enemy, Slain without fault, Life smacks but tastelessly Lacking your common salt! Stuck in a bog whence naught May catapult me, Come from the grave, long-sought, Come up and insult me!" ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Immature Adventure
"All night long like a moving stain, (The copse are breaking, my son,) The black ghost wanders his house of pain. In that location is blood where his hand has lain.
It is wrong he should wear a chain. (The sky is falling, my son.)" ― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Dark-brown'southward Body
"Of course, often enough, the people in books are poor. But then they're so darn poor, information technology's crazy. And, often enough, just when everything'south at its worst, some handy little legacy comes along and the new life opens out earlier them right away, like a great big tulip. Well, I only had one legacy in my life and I know what I did with that. Information technology darn nigh ruined me." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Glamour
"I figured I could easily live a year on the twelve hundred, and, at outset, I thought of France. But there'd be the nuisance of learning frog-talk and the passage there and dorsum. Likewise, I wanted to be near a big library. My novel was going to be near the American Revolution, if you can moving-picture show it. I'd read "Henry Esmond" over and over and I wanted to write a book similar that." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, Glamour
"American muse, whose strong and diverse eye So many men have tried to sympathise But just fabricated it smaller with their art, Because you are every bit various equally your land,
As mountainous-deep, as flowered with blue rivers, Thirsty with deserts, cached under snows, As native as the shape of Navajo quivers, And native, also, as the sea-voyaged rose." ― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Trunk
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