“Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.” KnowsWorldWellsLongWarSoulStarsLordTroubleLong TimeStonesKingdomsHillsProphetSomething NewVagueSeekersRebelliousWheatOutcastMisfits Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.” WarWisdomPeaceAnti WarAntiwar Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.” LoveWarNamesLostLosingClaimsMedicineFatsTitlesFallenHatsFlatsMiningMulesBonnetsTucson Author: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, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.” IfsWarEarthUniverseStarsRaceColorPlanetsTheoryHungerDistinction Book:A Child Is Born - A Modern Drama of the Nativity Source: A Child Is Born - A Modern Drama of the Nativity
“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 a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.” WarRealHateFightingSoundBlackPiecesShadowStonesFlagsLove And HateSorceryTotems Book:John Brown's Body Source: John Brown's Body
