John Brown's Body Quotes

“Dreaming men are haunted men.”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body

“The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body

“All night long like a moving stain,
(The trees are breaking, my son,)
The black ghost wanders his house of pain.
There is blood where his hand has lain.

It is wrong he should wear a chain.
(The sky is falling, my son.)”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body

“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,

As mountainous-deep, as flowered with blue rivers,
Thirsty with deserts, buried under snows,
As native as the shape of Navajo quivers,
And native, too, as the sea-voyaged rose.”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, John Brown's Body