Richard Eberhart: Quotes about war

Richard Eberhart was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on war.

Richard Eberhart: 12 quotes0 likes

“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

“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