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Stephen Vincent Benet
American
Poet
About the author
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet,
American
Poet
#Thought
#Power
#Wisdom
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet,
American
Poet
#Man
#Self
#Honesty
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Stephen Vincent Benet,
American
Poet
#Love
#American
#Names
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet,
American
Poet
#Life
#Day
#Dying
Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Benet,
American
Poet
#Men