Robinson Jeffers Short Quotes

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Science is an adoration; a kind of worship.

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It is only a little planet But how beautiful it is.

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The world's God is treacherous and full of
unreason.

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I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.

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Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

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Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

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

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The leonine adrenal glands poured their blind fury Into his blood.

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Therefore astronomy is the most noble science: is the most useless.

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I strain the mind to imagine distances That are not in man's mind...

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I have grown to believe A stone is a better pillow than many visions.

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

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Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.

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

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Poetry is bound to concern itself chiefly with permanent aspects of life.

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Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.

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I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.

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It is expanding, the farthest nebulae Rush with the speed of light into empty space.

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Useless intelligence of far stars, dim knowledge of the spinning demons that make an atom.

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Pleasure is merely contemptible,
the dangled
Carrot the ass follows to market or precipice.

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Science is not to serve but to know. Science is for itself its own value, it is not for man.

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Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment,
they have had what they wanted

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

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They work alongside the truth Never touching it; their equations are false But the things work.

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Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

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Against the outcrop boulders of a raised beach
We built our house when I and my love were young.

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

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Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend you The wings of the future, for I have them.

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

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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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