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

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

Richard Eberhart

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“Get your players on who can unlock the door and sooner or later they will break the door down”
“I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.”
“I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.”
“The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.”
“I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.”
“Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in men, and I love men, in terms of father, brother, everyone, disciples, students etc. Yet men have certain powers of compassion that are hard-pressed to be found in a woman to that degree.”
“Donald Trump actually won a lot of people. We've got to give the president-elect his due. He was a tractor beam for the disappointed. He said to the people who were disappointed with the president on Obamacare, "Come to me." He said to the people who were disappointed with trade, "Come to me." He said to the people who were disappointed with the Supreme Court, "Come to me." And he did run a campaign of bringing in the disappointed. And to the people who may be disappointed with their own lives and where they are. And they have a person to speak for them.”

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“Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.”

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