Robinson Jeffers Quotes

In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.

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.

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.