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.


Citations

Benét, Stephen Vincent. America. Farrar & Rinehart, 1944, p. 115.

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Stephen Vincent Benet
Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Born: July 22, 1898
  • Died: March 13, 1943
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet, Writer, Novelist

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.