Robinson Jeffers

“What is this thing called life? I believe That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering universe, and rocks on the mountains have life, Only we do not call it so--I speak of the...”

“You have perhaps heard some false reports On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten-- Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night....”

“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.”

“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.”

“I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing,...”

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

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

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

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