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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.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Stephen Vincent Benet
Age: 44 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 22
Died: 1943
Died: March 13
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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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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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Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.
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Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.
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Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
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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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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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Dreaming men are haunted men.
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I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.
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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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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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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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At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.
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The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
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Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!
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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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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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Books are not men and yet they are alive.
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American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.
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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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