Robinson Jeffers Quotes

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• The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
• Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the…
• Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a…
• I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is…
• Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
• The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
• Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.
• There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
• Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
• Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed…
• They import and they consume reality.
• You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than…
• Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.
• Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron…
• He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
• Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
• ...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and…
• ...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the…
• The tides are in our veins.

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