94 Quotes by Robinson Jeffers

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.

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

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

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

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, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men.

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

I've changed my ways a little, I cannot nowRun 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.

For now I know that whatever bent this world around us, whether it was God or whether it was blindChance as blind as my father,Is perfectly good, we're given a dollar of life to gamble against a dollar's worth of desireAnd if we win we have both but losers lose nothing,

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.