Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet

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Poet, short story writer, novelist · 1898–1943

Poet, short story writer, novelist (1898–1943)

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“Dreaming men are haunted men.”

“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.”

“He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.”

“There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned”

“(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.”

“As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.”

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“As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
america americans

“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
honesty

“He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
music

“(Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
personal appearance

“We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate black sorcery st...”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
reason

“Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
this moment

“Dreaming men are haunted men.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Men Haunted Dreaming

“Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word.”
— Stephen Vincent Benét
america identity immigrants xenophobia

“There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned”
— Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star
life-s-journey poetry-quotes solitude

“As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
america americans

“Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
— Stephen Vincent Benet
this moment