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Richard Eberhart

Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. He is the grandfather of former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington.

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Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

Evidence, Mind, Seen, Soul

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

Composes, Doe, Man, Men, Poem, Poetry

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where youwere then from where you are now.

Milestone, Milestones, Spells, Way, Where You Are

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

Writing, Soul, May, Save, Poet

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

War, Enemy, Hours, Contemplator, Combatants

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.

Country, Crisis, Energy, Long, Poetry, World

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Country, Energy, Natural, Resource

Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?

Invited, Like, Littles, Suicide

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Clothes, Fashion, Perfection, Style, View, Views

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?

Definition, Fighting, God, Stupid, Stupidity, War

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

Effect, Prayer, Ruthfulness, Senselessness, Three, War

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.

Aerial, Doe, History, Know, Space, Thinking

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.

Against, Feelings, Heart, See, Survive, Way