Robinson Jeffers Quotes (38 Quotes)


    The deep dark-shining Pacific leans on the land Feeling his cold strength To the outmost margins


    And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
    insufferable master.


    There are many other reasons for deciding to use Linux. But as I think about this question, I'm reminded of a poem by Robinson Jeffers entitled The Beauty of Things. ... reasons, but not the reason.


    As for me, I would rather Be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man.




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

    Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.



    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.


    Frightfully uplifted for having turned inward to love the
    people: -that root was so sweet O dreadful agonist?



    A man forcing the
    imaginations of men,
    Possessing with love and power the people: a man defiling his
    own household with impious desire.

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


    A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.

    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. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars none of them seems to me important it itself, but only the whole. The whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.

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

    Integrity is wholeness,
    the greatest beauty is
    Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
    of the universe.

    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.

    Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

    They have strange quiet,
    Integrity, health, soundness, to the full
    They've dealt with life and been tempered by it.


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


    Turn outward, love things, not men, turn right away from humanity,
    Let that doll lie.


    Look how noble the world is, the lonely-flowing waters, the secret-keeping stones, the flowing sky.

    To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural; Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas, The love, lust, longing reasons, but not the reason.


    Why does insanity always twist the great answers Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness then it hates its life-cage and seeks further, And finds, if it is powerful enough. But instantly the private agony that made the search Muddles the finding. Then search for truth is foredoomed and frustrate Only stained fragments Until the mind has turned its love from itself and man, from parts to the whole.

    At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
    Hear the music, the thunder of the wings.


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