Stephen Vincent Ben

Famous quotes containing the words stephen vincent, stephen, vincent and/or ben:

    “I am tired of loving a foreign muse.”
    —Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

    “Seynt Stevene was a clerk in Kyng Herowdes halle.
    And servyd him of bred and cloth, as every kyng befalle.”
    —Unknown. St. Stephen and King Herod (l. 1–2)

    “Earth does not understand her child,
    Who from the loud gregarious town
    Returns, depleted and defiled,
    To the still woods, to fling him down.”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
    Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
    That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
    Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
    And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
    Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
    In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)