The war may present or force a subject; it may bring out a … - Richard Eberhart

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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

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Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet.

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