The ghosts of the tribe

Crouch in the nights beside the ghost of a fire, they try to

Remember the sunlight,

Light has died out of their skies.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "Apology for Bad Dreams"

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.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "Road Stallion"

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "Post Mortem"

O that our souls could scale a height like this,

A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak

Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak

Above the blinding clouds of prejudice,

Would we could see all truly as it is;

The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "A Hill-Top View"

Know that however ugly the parts appear

the whole remains beautiful.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "The Answer"

Justice and mercy

Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "Birds and Fishes"

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

ROBINSON JEFFERS, "Cawdor"

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