Robinson Jeffers Quotes

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

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

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun with you in the evenings along the shore,Except in a ...

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

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.

I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But af...

You have perhaps heard some false reportsOn the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fabl...

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

They had heroes for companions, beautiful youths todream of, rose-marble-fingeredWomen shed light do...

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

What is this thing called life? I believeThat the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering ...

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above t...

That public men publish falsehoodsIs nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical repub...

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earni...

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to brea...

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

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, I And protes...

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder a...

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth