Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart
Richard Ghormley Eberhartwas an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. He is the grandfather of former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 April 1904
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
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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.
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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.
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Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?
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Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.
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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.
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If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.
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The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
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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?
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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.
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Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where youwere then from where you are now.
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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.
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Style is the perfection of a point of view.