Best Robinson Jeffers Quotes
- Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must… All
- Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of… Doe
- Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God. Bird
- The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Beauty
- I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and… Along
- The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life… Child
- A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves… Abstract
- To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those holy or noble… Beauty
- A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears… Apart
- Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success… Agony
- It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way Until all… All
- What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger Jewelled with such… Antelope