Richard Eberhart
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.Collection: Poetry
Style is the perfection of a point of view.
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.
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.Collection: Men
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others.Collection: Writing
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatantsCollection: War
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.Collection: Country
I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.Collection: Prayer
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.Collection: Way
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?"Collection: Suicide
Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.Collection: Soul