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Category: Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Men, Haunted, Dreaming

Stephen Vincent Benét

Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét

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 Tokens of love and hate black sorcery stones.

Stephen Vincent Benét

(Abraham Lincoln’s) weathered face was homely as a plowed field.

personal, appearance

Stephen Vincent Benét

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

Stephen Vincent Benét

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benét

Remember that when you say ‘I will have none 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.

america, identity, immigrants, xenophobia