God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds. - Stephen Vincent Benet
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth. - Stephen Vincent Benet
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.
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, undiv… - Stephen Vincent Benet
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, undiv…
Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways... - Stephen Vincent Benet
Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. - Stephen Vincent Benet
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champm… - Stephen Vincent Benet
I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champm…
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. - Stephen Vincent Benet
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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 … - Stephen Vincent Benet
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 …
Life was a storm to wander through. - Stephen Vincent Benet
Life was a storm to wander through.
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