Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Heart, Knees, Wounded Knee

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

• 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.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Strong, Men

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

• I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
  I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
  You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
  You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
  I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Lying, Heart, Body

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

• One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Heart, Balance, Tragedy

  1928 'John Brown's Body'.

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