Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart

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 wher…

- Richard Eberhart

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

- Richard Eberhart

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 B…

- Richard Eberhart

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

- Richard Eberhart

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. Histor…

- Richard Eberhart

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 esta…

- Richard Eberhart

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

- Richard Eberhart

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