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Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. "Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities." 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 was the grandfather of former Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. April 1904 – 9. June 2005
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Famous Richard Eberhart Quotes

“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

The Poetry of War 1939-45 ed. Ian Hamilton, London 1965
"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"

“A poet knows war without objective war in the world; it was conflict at the root of his mind that impelled him to the masking of these conflicts in the apparent resolution and order of works of art. In a dialectical sense, all poetry is war.”

Richard Eberhart

The War Poets

“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

"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"

“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

from his 1977 acceptance speech for a National Book Award Chicago Sun-Times, Jun 13, 2005 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20050613/ai_n14717257 <br class="br">Other

“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

Quoted in his obituary Dartmouth College news release http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2005/06/10.html <br class="br">Other

“The war may present or force a subject; it may bring out a poet, or shock him onto a sensibility of silence. It may kill him. Or germinate the best war poems for exfoliation years after the event.”

Richard Eberhart

The War Poets ed. Oscar Williams. New York 1945
The War Poets

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