Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes - Page 2

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• Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Meditation Practice, I Have Learned

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Luck, England, Calling

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• 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.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Shoes, Georgia, Hell

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

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Eye, Night, America

  Stephen Vincent Benét, “Daniel Boone”

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• Books are not men and yet they are alive.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Men, Alive

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• Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Men, Hell, Knows

  "The Devil and Daniel Webster". Short story by Stephen Vincent Benet, October 24, 1936.

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• At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Political, Everyday

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Garden, Feet

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• I have fallen in love with American names,
  The sharp names that never get fat,
  The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
  The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
  Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Love, War, Names

  'American Names' (1927)

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• Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Facts, Layers

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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”

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• The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, People, Pieces

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  School, Graduates, Form

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• 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.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Mixtures, Matter, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Cities, Voice

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

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• Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Writing, Clouds

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  New York, Writing, Cities

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Dreaming men are haunted men.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Love, Dream, Men

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

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• It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Technology, People, Sound

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Knowledge, Winter, Thinking

  "By the Waters of Babylon". Post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" as "The Place of the Gods"), July 31, 1937.

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• And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Trust, Kings, Dust

  Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee

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

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Book, Coming Out

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Names, Fats, Fallen

  'American Names' (1927)

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