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

Richard Eberhart

#Prayer Quotes #War Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”
“We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.”
“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.”
“Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.”
“I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.”

Source : "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.
“RenÃ© of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

Source : Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1123, Leo Tolstoy
“The true God is not a form idealized; he/she/it is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering.... There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.”

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