Stephen Vincent Benet — American Poet born on July 22, 1898, died on March 13, 1943

Stephen Vincent Benét /bɨˈneɪ/ was an American author, 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, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". In 2009, The Library of America selected Benét’s story "The King of the Cats" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub... (wikipedia)

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Dreaming men are haunted men.
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.