111 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benét

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

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.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years – a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

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.

Remember that when you say “I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,” you have denied America with that word.

I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel’s heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man’s memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

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

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.