Richard Eberhart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Fashion #Clothes #Views
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 #World
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
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 #Looks
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
-- Richard Eberhart

#War #Enemy #Hours
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
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
-- Richard Eberhart

#Men #Poetry #World
Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.
-- Richard Eberhart

#Soul #Mind #Evidence
Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?
-- Richard Eberhart

#Suicide #Littles
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 #Firsts
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.
-- Richard Eberhart

#Writing #Soul #May

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