Joseph Stiglitz
American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Stephen Vincent Benet was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown’s Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, published in 1936, and “By the Waters of Babylon”, published in 1937.
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Stephen Vincent Benetwas an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown’s Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, published in 1936, and “By the Waters of Babylon”, published in 1937.
In 2009, Library of America selected his story “The King of the Cats”, published in 1929, for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.
5 Quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet
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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent BenetAmerican poet, short story writer, novelist
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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 BenetAmerican poet, short story writer, novelist
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent BenetAmerican poet, short story writer, novelist
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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Stephen Vincent BenetAmerican poet, short story writer, novelist
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Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent BenetAmerican poet, short story writer, novelist