Bird Quote by Robinson Jeffers

“Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.”

Robinson Jeffers

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Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

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“The Atlantic is a stormy moat, and the Mediterranean, The blue pool in the old garden, More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice…

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“The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the…

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As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are,…

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Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

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Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

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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,…

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Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and…

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“One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow And man's dark soul.”

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We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

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