111 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benét

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.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

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.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

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.

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

Life was a storm to wander through.