111 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benét

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

Something begins, begins;Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroadIn flesh and spirit and fire.Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

God pity us indeed, for we are human,And do not always seeThe vision when it comes, the shining change,Or, if we see it, do not follow it,Because it is too hard, too strange, too new,Too unbelievable, too difficult,Warring too much with common, easy ways,And now I know this, standing in this light,Who have been half alive these many years,Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain,Saying "I am a barren bough. ExpectNor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

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.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.