William Rose Benet Quotes

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.
William Rose Benét (1933). “Starry Harness”
You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
William Rose Benét (1927). “Man Possessed: Being the Selected Poems of William Rose Benét”
William Rose Benét (1947). “The Stairway of Surprise: Poems”, New York : Alfred A. Knopf