Robinson Jeffers - Earth Quotes

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I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.

Robinson Jeffers
At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, wreathed with wet poppies, waiting spring
The ocean swelled for a far storm and beat its boundary, the ground-swell shook the beds of granite. I gazing at the boundaries of granite and spray, the established sea-marks, felt behind me
Mountain and plain, the immense breadth of the continent, before me the mass and double stretch of water.

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Know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful. 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.

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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.

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And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught — they say —
God, when he walked on earth.

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Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland
plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke
Into pale sea — look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet:
this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia,
Australia and white Antarctica: those are the eyelids that never close;
this is the staring unsleeping
Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars.

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The great one, the ancient torch, a lord among lost children, The earth's orbit doubled would not girdle his greatness, one fire Globed, out of grasp of the mind enormous; but to you O Night What? Not a spark?.

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Nor can the astronomer see his moon-dazzled Constellations: let him give one night in the month to earth and the moon, Women and games.

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God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars-- If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears.

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We know the stars, hotter and more fatal than earth; we have learned lately the fire-wheel galaxies, Infinite in number or all but infinite, among which our great sun's galaxy's Flight is as a gnat's, one grain of sand in the Sahara: it is necessary to stretch our minds To these dimensions.

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It was like the glittering night last October When the earth swam through a comet's tail, and fiery serpents Filled half of heaven.

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For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart...

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