Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes
We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.
Benét, Stephen Vincent. America. Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, p. 115.
On the need to build up Jewish military strength in anticipation of the impending Arab-Israel crisis
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected Benét’s story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales.