Famous Robinson Jeffers Quotations

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"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 his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed, in fact, in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Civilization is a transient sickness."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice."
by Robinson Jeffers
"The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth."
by Robinson Jeffers
"all the arts lose virtue Against the essential reality..."
by Robinson Jeffers
"And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill, Though furious for continuance, passionately feeding, passionately..."
by Robinson Jeffers
"And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom...."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Be great, carve deep your heel-marks. The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge..."
by Robinson Jeffers
"He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse."
by Robinson Jeffers
"How shall the dead taste the deep treasure they have?"
by Robinson Jeffers
"I tell you solemnly That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten by that beak and become part of him, to share those wings and ..."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Life is grown sweeter and lonelier, And death is no evil."
by Robinson Jeffers
"man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart:..."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan."
by Robinson Jeffers
"O passionately at peace when will that tide draw shoreward,"
by Robinson Jeffers
"Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;"
by Robinson Jeffers
"Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, The exuberant voices of music,..."
by Robinson Jeffers
"The future is ever a misted landscape, no man foreknows it, but at cyclical turns There is a change felt in the rhythm of events:"
by Robinson Jeffers
"The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Hooked in the stones of the wall,"
by Robinson Jeffers
"The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man."
by Robinson Jeffers
"This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game."
by Robinson Jeffers
"Unmeasured power, incredible passion, enormous craft: no thought apparent but burns darkly..."
by Robinson Jeffers


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