#stephen vincent benet

[m8why]

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[citizenscreen]

Director D. W. Griffith and author Stephen Vincent Benet meeting in New York to talk about the screenplay for ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1930).

[thesarahshay]

Today I learned...

In 1894, Washington Irving wrote a short story titled "The Devil and Tom Walker," about a man who sells his soul to the devil.

In 1936, Stephen Vincent Benét was inspired by Irving's story to write a similar one, titled "The Devil and Daniel Webster," where a man who sold his soul to the devil is defended by Webster, a real-life attorney.

In 2018, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina aired an episode titled "The Trial of Sabrina Spellman," which features a version of Daniel Webster (played by John Rubinstein) who has sold his soul to the devil.

In 2021, John Rubinstein appeared in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, based on Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," playing a man who has, in a manner of speaking, sold his soul.

[unstable-teacup]

Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum - Stephen Vincent Benet

Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright

As the blank windows set in glaring brick,

When the wind strengthens from the sea -- and night

Drops like a fog and makes the breath come thick;

By the deserted paths, the vacant halls,

One may see figures, twisted shades and lean,

Like the mad shapes that crawl an Indian screen,

Or paunchy smears you find on prison walls.

Turn the knob gently! There's the Thumbless Man,

Still weaving glass and silk into a dream,

Although the wall shows through him -- and the Khan

Journeys Cathay beside a paper stream.

A Rabbit Woman chitters by the door --

-- Chilly the grave-smell comes from the turned sod --

Come -- lift the curtain -- and be cold before

The silence of the eight men who were God!

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[protoslacker]

American muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land,

Stephen Vincent Benét the first stanza fron the "Invocation," John Brown's Body.

I don't remember when I first read these lines, or perhaps heard them, but I do remember how the resonated in me. Diverstiy isn't a bad thing, it's an indelible quality, the essential thing about being American.

[brummie-man-interests]

"All That Money Can Buy" is an American film based on the short story 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' by the American poet and writer Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943). He is best known for his poem 'John Brown's Body' (1928).

[imaddressingyou]

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

We thought the long train would run to the end of Time.

We thought the light would increase.

Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it.

Now the boar and the asp have power in our time.

Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon’s teeth.

Our children know and suffer the armed men.

[quotes-by-dilanka]

“When the prophets of strange religions ball out their bizarre despair, do not join them on the mountain.

Say only it is here, it is here.

Break your bones to mend your soul, die trying, a constellation of unabsolved fury a dichotomy of distress.

Born of rage.

Forced into narrower and narrower avenues of existence not by other but by self, is this who I really am?”

—Stephen Vincent Benet

[beating-beetle-heart]

Attempting blackout poetry for the first time. Doing it digitally because I can't bring myself to mark up a book lol

[readingbooksinisrael]

Short Story Review: The Devil and Daniel Webster/Stephen Vincent Benet

link:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602901h.html

The concept of a lawyer defending someone who sold his soul to the Devil, arguing with the Devil himself, is very cool, but I feel that the story disappointed me on the delivery. I kept on waiting for something to happen and was let down by the ending; and while I get the ending I can think of ways to make it stronger, especially since SVB knows how to use strong, descriptive language.

[ross-hollander]

They say that between gunshot and throne-room floor, Cameron saw everything that was to come- and his final breath left as a scream of terror.

Song for Three Soldiers, by Stephen Vincent Benet.

[april-is]

April 26, 2025: Butter, Olive Oil, Flour, Lucia Cherciu

Butter, Olive Oil, Flour Lucia Cherciu

Even the grocery list is a love poem, a prayer— God, let me keep what I love.

Peaches, cheap. Books, brilliant— mine so I can underline.

How aromatic the apricots, how sharp the novels.

Together, we have planted an orchard.

I don’t understand the word defensive: are you supposed to just sit there?

I don’t think we have this word in Romanian; we also don’t have a word for camel toe.

Or panty line: if you don’t see one does it mean you’re going commando?

You always put a spell on me. And everything I want is here—

but where am I?

--

Today in: 

2024: Origin Story, 1993, Adam Falkner 2023: For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut, Hanif Abdurraqib 2022: Demeter, Midwinter, Mairead Small Staid 2021: from A Pillow Book, Suzanne Buffam 2020: Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild, J.P. Grasser 2019: After the First Child, the Second, Mary Austin Speaker 2018: A New Lifestyle, James Tate 2017: Anchorage, Joy Harjo 2016: Poem to First Love, Matthew Yeager 2015: Ode to the Reel Mower, Jim Daniels 2014: So Much Happiness, Naomi Shihab Nye 2013: Habitation, Margaret Atwood 2012: About Marriage, Denise Levertov 2011: In Praise of My Bed, Meredith Holmes 2010: Black Swan, Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2009: In Me as the Swans, Leslie Williams 2008: Gnosticism V, Anne Carson 2007: American Names, Stephen Vincent Benet 2006: since feeling is first, e.e. cummings 2005: The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats

[anachronous-cetacea]

Daniel Webster in 4 different universe：

History（1830 Salem murder trial）；

Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent（by Stephen Vincent Benet）；

The Book of Nullification；

The Thing on the Doorstep（by HP Lovecraft）.

btw he is a bullfrog, which is from Mark Twain's short novel The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

[justforbooks]

Στίβεν Βίνσεντ Μπενέι, Επί των ποταμών Βαβυλώνος

Μία μετα-αποκαλυπτική ιστορία που γράφτηκε το 1937, πριν τις ατομικές βόμβες και πριν καν αρχίσει ο Δεύτερος Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος. Ο αφηγητής της ιστορίας είναι ένας νεαρός άνδρας που εξερευνά τον κόσμο γύρω του. Οι άνθρωποι ζουν σε φυλές, όπως εκείνοι στο μακρινό παρελθόν. Ο κύριος χαρακτήρας βλέπει επίσης τα σημάδια της αποκάλυψης που η ανθρωπότητα θα αντιμετωπίσει στο μέλλον. Stephen Vincent Benet ήταν προφήτης και αυτός είναι ο θρήνος του.

Ήθελα να μοιραστώ τη γνώση μου με όλο τον κόσμο, μα μου είπε να μην το κάνω. Είπε: «Η αλήθεια είναι γρήγορο ελάφι να το κυνηγήσεις. Αν δεχτείς πολλή αλήθεια μονομιάς, μπορεί να πεθάνεις από την τρεχάλα. Δεν ήταν τυχαίο που οι πατέρες μάς απαγόρεψαν να πηγαίνουμε σε κείνα τα μέρη». Και είχε δίκιο. Είναι καλύτερα η αλήθεια να λάμψει λίγη λίγη. Αυτό έμαθα όντας ιερέας. Ίσως, στο παρελθόν, να δέχτηκαν πολλή αλήθεια μονομιάς.

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