E. T. Eberhart Quotes
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.
The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.
contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
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?
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.
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?"
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.
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.
A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.
Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate.Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.
