Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

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

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.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.