Robinson Jeffers Quotes


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. - Robinson Jeffers


What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk's head? - Robinson Jeffers


The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. - Robinson Jeffers


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


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. - Robinson Jeffers


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


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. - Robinson Jeffers


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


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