American - Poet | July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
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Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
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Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
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You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
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Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.
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We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.
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It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.
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Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
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There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
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