We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Honesty rare as a man without self pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.
man honesty wind pity
Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
life lost day small dying
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity
man honesty
Dreaming men are haunted men
men dreaming haunted
life wisdom power thought
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
heart
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.
names fallen american love fat
My people are the Hill People. They are the men. I go into the Dead Places but I am not slain. I take the metal from the Dead Places but I am not blasted. I travel upon the god-roads and am not afraid.
places travel people men
Life was a storm to wander through. I took the wrong way. Good and well, At least my feet sought out not Hell!
wrongs life
You will have money and all that money can buy.
money
He knew that once you bested anybody like Mr. Scratch in fair fight, his power on you was gone. And he could see that Mr. Scratch knew it too.
power
Icarus, Icarus, though the end is piteous, Yet forever, yea, forever we shall see thee rising thus, See the first supernal glory, not the ruin hideous.
ruins glory theend
For those slain at once. For those living through the months and years Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day To the work or the queue for meat or the secret club, Living meanwhile, begetting children, smuggling guns, And found and killed at the end like rats in a drain.
work theend
Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.
change
She stood there, and at once I knew The bitter thing that I must do. There could be no surrender now; Though Sleep and Death were whispering low.
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