Richard Eberhart Quotes

• Style is the perfection of a point of view.

  Richard Eberhart

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Richard Eberhart (1965). “Selected poems, 1930-1965”

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• Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

  Richard Eberhart

  Heart, Feelings, Way

  "Poet Richard Eberhart Dies at Age 101". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 12, 2005.

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• It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.

  Richard Eberhart

  Men, Poetry, Doe

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.

  Richard Eberhart

  Writing, Soul, May

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

  Richard Eberhart

  Country, Long, Energy

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

  Richard Eberhart

  War, Enemy, Hours

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• Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

  Richard Eberhart

  Country, Energy, Natural

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
  Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
  Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
  Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?

  Richard Eberhart

  War, Stupid, Fighting

  1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.

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• I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

  Richard Eberhart

  Prayer, War, Three

  "The Poetry of War 1939-45". Book edited by Ian Hamilton, 1965.

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• Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

  Richard Eberhart

  Way, Where You Are, Milestone

  "Poet Richard Eberhart Dies at Age 101". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 12, 2005.

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• A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

  Richard Eberhart

  Suicide, Littles, Invited

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• Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

  Richard Eberhart

  Soul, Mind, Evidence

  Richard Eberhart (1965). “Selected poems, 1930-1965”

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• You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
  would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
  Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.
  History, even, does not know what is meant.

  Richard Eberhart

  Thinking, Space, Doe

  1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.

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