Dreaming men are haunted men.
About Stephen Vincent Benet
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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Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
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Dreaming men are haunted men.
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