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Quotes from Young Adventure — Stephen Vincent Benét

1898–1943 United States

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11 quotes

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.

Young Adventure (1918)

Like a great word once known and lost
And meaning all things.

Young Adventure (1918)

These I see,
Blazing through all eternity,
A fire-winged sign, a glorious tree!

Young Adventure (1918)

And yet I strove — and I was fire
And ice — and fire and ice were one
In one vast hunger of desire.

Young Adventure (1918)

Eternally the choking steam goes up
From the black pools of seething oil...

Young Adventure (1918)

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.

Young Adventure (1918)

The fight was done. Even gods tire
Of fighting...

Young Adventure (1918)

I only know that there was Pain,
Infinite and eternal Pain.
And that I fell — and rose again.

Young Adventure (1918)

Life was a storm to wander through.
I took the wrong way. Good and well,
At least my feet sought out not Hell!

Young Adventure (1918)

There was no pain when I awoke,
No pain at all. Rest, like a goad,
Spurred my eyes open — and light broke
Upon them like a million swords:
And she was there. There are no words. Heaven is for a moment's span.
And ever.

Young Adventure (1918)

I stumbled, slipped... and all was gone
That I had gained.

Young Adventure (1918)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stephen Vincent Benét (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.