Quotes by Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers

…Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

Reality

Running

Truth

[K]now 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.

Beautiful

Beauty

Stars

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say “en masse,” you said “independence.” But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Freedom

Luxury

Passion

civilization is a transient sickness.

Civilization

Illness

Sickness

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.

Cities

Feet

Lying

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

Eye

Hate

Wings

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

Incapacity

Pain

Strong

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

Love

Swans

Wings

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

Break Through

Fire

Race

I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy… parts of one organic whole…. (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.

Beautiful

Love

Stars

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Appeals

Art

Beautiful

Beauty

Bird

Born

Break Through

Change

Cities

Civilization

Clouds

Cold

Confidence

Culture

Dark

Decay

Dies

Dream

Eye

Feet

Fire

Freedom

Games

Grace

Hands

Hate

Heaven

Home

Ifs

Illness

Imports

Incapacity

Instinct

Justice

Knives

Life

Lonely

Long

Love

Luxury

Lying

Mind

Mother

Mountain

Music

Pain

Passion

People

Poetry

Race

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Quotes by Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers

…Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say “en masse,” you said “independence.” But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

civilization is a transient sickness.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.

Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.

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

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

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