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Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation.

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A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

Book, Boys, Devil, Honour, Row, Throwing

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

Die, Eagles, Flag, Lying, Men, Thousand

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Death, Finals, Individual, Nature, Perhaps, Phenomenon

Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.

Summer, Men, Hands, Appeared, Asbury

If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

Struggle, Littles, Tiny, Sees, Fine

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

Came, Men, Night, Sound, Wind

Half of tradition is a lie.

Half, Lie, Lying, Tradition

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

Cried, Intended, Land, Lands, Men, White

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep. War is kind.

Breast, Father, Kind, War, Yellow

Everything is bicycle.

Bicycle, Cycling, Everything

A little man said to the Universe. "Sir! I exist. " The Universe replied: "That's fine. " Just don't think it creates any obligation on my part.

Exist, Littles, Men, Replied, Said, Thinking

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

Collaboration, Result, Results, Sin

If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

Contemplate, Land, Name, Names, Sea

These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

Dream, Hold, Kings, Name, Statesmen, Stupid

Truth. . . Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

Truth, Wind, Long, Phantom, Touched

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

Demonstrate, Firsts, Man, Men, Seer, Tree

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad. " And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

Men, Said, Thinking, Thought, Toad, Wicked

The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.

Dark, Lying, Plain, Tongue, Unknown, Wine

Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

Angel, Angels, Came, Long, Stayed, Two

Doubtless there are other roads.

Doubtless, Roads

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