Jeffers

Famous quotes containing the word jeffers:

    I’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk;
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places,
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    Truly men hate the truth; they’d liefer
    Meet a tiger on the road.
    Therefore the poets honey their truth with lying; but religion-
    Vendors and political men
    Pour from the barrel, new lies on the old,
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)