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Robinson Jeffers quotes: The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beautyWill remain when there is no heart to break for it.

The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heartbreaking beauty
Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: 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 hawk's cry.

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 hawk's cry.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Civilization is a transient sickness.

Civilization is a transient sickness.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

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

Robinson Jeffers quotes: He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

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

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

Robinson Jeffers quotes: It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element.

Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

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

Robinson Jeffers quotes: The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.

I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: If millions are born millions must die.

If millions are born millions must die.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

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

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

Robinson Jeffers quotes: There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: You making haste haste on decay ...

You making haste haste on decay ...

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Robinson Jeffers quotes: They import and they consume reality.

They import and they consume reality.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flowAnd man's dark soul.

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.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: This is my last worst pain,the bitter enlightenment that buys peace.

This is my last worst pain,
the bitter enlightenment that buys peace.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years
Will Hardly leach," he thought, "this dust of that fire.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: 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 the wings.

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 the wings.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

Robinson Jeffers quotes: The tides are in our veins.

The tides are in our veins.