William Rose Benet Quotes

You came to climb,
And you endure --
So turn your face to the rock of Time,
Make one more foothold sure! - William Rose Benet

You are to me what the bowstring is to the shaft,
Speeding my purpose aloft and aflame and afar. - William Rose Benet

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. - William Rose Benet

Time, the dark whale, spouts blithely from his spiracle
A jet of memory that makes glad the sun. - William Rose Benet

So let it be, let it be,
Fretting all the day! - William Rose Benet

Only madmen seize the story
With coals of fire upon their tongue. - William Rose Benet

Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,
Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you;
I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true. - William Rose Benet

Like a knight in glittering armor, Laughter Stood up at his side. - William Rose Benet

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. - William Rose Benet

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