Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes about War

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

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

Wisdom, Peace, War

Atlantic Monthly Sept. 1935 "Litany for Dictatorships"

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Stars, War, Race

Stephen Vincent Benet (2016). “A Child Is Born - A Modern Drama of the Nativity”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Hate, Real, War

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Love, War, Names

'American Names' (1927)

Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Stars, War, Long

"A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes about War

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