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American poet and academic (d. 2005), Birth: 5-4-1904
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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

2.
Style is the perfection of a point of view.
Richard Eberhart

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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

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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.
Richard Eberhart

5.
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
Richard Eberhart

Similar Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson William Shakespeare C. S. Lewis Rumi Samuel Johnson George Herbert George Eliot Maya Angelou Horace Charles Bukowski John Milton Alexander Pope Ovid Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sylvia Plath
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Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.
Richard Eberhart

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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

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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

Quote Topics by Richard Eberhart: War Energy Country Doe Way Soul Where You Are Men Prayer Heart May Clothes Fighting Fashion Natural Thinking Hours Mind Suicide Milestone Three Feelings Writing Views Stupid Space Enemy Evidence Invited Long
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If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.
Richard Eberhart

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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

11.
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.
Richard Eberhart

12.
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

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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