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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Stephen Vincent Benet
Age: 44 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 22
Died: 1943
Died: March 13
Journalist
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Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
Stephen Vincent Benet
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The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.
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Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.
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There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.
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When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
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Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
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Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.
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A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
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When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from A - particularly sections 22 and 23. It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.
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Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
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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, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.
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Something begins, begins Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
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I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.
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Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
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If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.
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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.
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Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.
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Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!
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Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.
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Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.
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Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.
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