Robinson Jeffers

“The heads of empires are wolves, the skulls of common men are sheep.”

“Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend you the wings of the future, for I have them.”

“Humanity is the mold to break away from.”

“I'd rather be a stone in a wall than a brick in a house.”

“I would rather, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.”

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

“When the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.”

“Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”

“As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.”

“Corruption is not compulsory.”

“Shine, perishing republic.”

“The coast hills of California still remember the feet of the Indians.”

“A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again.”

“The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those that ask mercy, not often to the arrogant.”

“Mourning is not remembering. It is forgetting.”

“The world has been partisan from the beginning.”