I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to t…

- Robinson Jeffers

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

- Robinson Jeffers

The tides are in our veins.

- Robinson Jeffers

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

- Robinson Jeffers

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 l…

- Robinson Jeffers

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from our…

- Robinson Jeffers

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Lo…

- Robinson Jeffers

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

- Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

- Robinson Jeffers