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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.

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

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.

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

Civilization is a transient sickness.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

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

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

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

I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

If millions are born millions must die.

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.

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

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

You making haste haste on decay ...

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

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

They import and they consume reality.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The tides are in our veins.