Jeffers

Famous quotes containing the word jeffers:

    If civilization goes down, that
    Would be an event to contemplate.
    It will not be in our time, alas, my dear,
    It will not be in our time.
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever
    servant, insufferable master.
    There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that
    caught—they say—God, when he walked on earth.
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    all the arts lose virtue
    Against the essential reality
    Of creatures going about their business among the equally
    Earnest elements of nature.
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)