Robinson Jeffers quotes - page 3

If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet. (Robinson Jeffers)
All that we saw or heard was beautiful And hardly human. View quote
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Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant. View quote
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An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness. View quote
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Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy And the dogs that talk revolution. View quote
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I think it is our privilege and felicity to love God for his beauty, without claiming or expecting love from him. View quote
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O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven. View quote
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I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. View quote
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Now the spoiler has come: does it care? Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide That swells and in time will ebb, and all Their works dissolve. View quote
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He is no God of love, no justice of a little city like Dante's Florence, no anthropoid God Making commandments: this is the God who does not care and will never cease. View quote
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These are real and we see their beauty. (Robinson Jeffers)
Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you. View quote
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I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things. View quote
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That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you. View quote
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Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth. View quote
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The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean. View quote
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O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. View quote
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The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb and lay in the sun's eye on the tideline. It was long and long ago; we have grown proud since then and you have grown bitter; life retains Your mobile soft unquiet strength; and envies hardness, the insolent quietness of stone. View quote
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I think, here is your emblem To hang in the future sky; Not the cross, not the hive, But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness; Life with calm death; the falcon's Realist eyes and act Married to the massive Mysticism of stone, Which failure cannot cast down Nor success make proud. View quote
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