111 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benét

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.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.