Famous Stephen Vincent Benet Quotations

"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."

by Stephen Vincent Benet

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

by Stephen Vincent Benét

"But not the first Illusion, the new earth,The march upon the solitary fire,The casting of the dice of death and birthAgainst a giant, for a blind desire,The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried,The metal sleeping in the mountainside."

by Stephen Vincent Benet

"Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peacethat he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make."

by Stephen Vincent Benet

"Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind."

by Stephen Vincent Benet

"Its a Story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Danl Websters deador, at least, they buried him. But every time theres a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, Danl WebsterDanl Webster! the groundll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while youll hear a deep voice saying, Neighbor, how stands the Union? Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or hes liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, thats what I was told when I was a youngster."

by Stephen Vincent Benet

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

by Stephen Vincent Benet

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

by Stephen Vincent Benet