Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you’d better.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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 Benét

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

— Stephen Vincent Benét

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man’s memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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

— Stephen Vincent Benét

I’ve been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she’d found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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If two New Hampshiremen aren’t a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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

— Stephen Vincent Benét

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, “Oh, you haven’t been walking lately” – like I’m a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

— Stephen Vincent Benét

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from “A” – particularly sections “22” and “23.” It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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 Benét

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 Benét

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 Benét

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we’re walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benét

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 Benét

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 Benét

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