Quotes from Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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

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 stones.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways

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