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Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Stephen Vincent Benet
Age: 44 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 22
Died: 1943
Died: March 13
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Men
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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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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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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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When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.
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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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Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
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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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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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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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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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Dreaming men are haunted men.
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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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Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.
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Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.
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The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
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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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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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