Stephen Vincent Benet Quote Explained: I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

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Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon’s teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

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I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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Deer

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You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you’d better.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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Fallen

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As for what you’re calling hard luck – well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

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· USA

Luck

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we’re walking in.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we’re walking in.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon’s teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you’d better.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

As for what you’re calling hard luck – well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

I don’t really feel like you’re making a record unless you pay attention to it.

Sometimes the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we’re walking in.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we’re walking in.

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