Robinson Jeffers

perhaps we desire death / or why is poison so sweet? / why do little Sirens make kindlier music / for a man caught in the net of the world between news-cast & work-desk? ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#death

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#dogs #dream #memory #passage #time

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

— Robinson Jeffers

#life #universe #beauty

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#poetry #the-continent-s-end #life

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#life

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

— Robinson Jeffers

#life #relationships #life

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

— Robinson Jeffers

#age

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#freedom #love #man #quality #western

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

— Robinson Jeffers

#carrot #lead #market #pleasure #precipice

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

— Robinson Jeffers

#pain #strong #worse