(10 January 1887 – 20 January 1962 / Allegheny, Pennsylvania)

poet Robinson Jeffers
#131 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''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), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 22-25). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
    49 person liked.
    		14 person did not like.
  • ''It would be better for men
    To be few and live far apart, where none could infect another; then
    slowly the sanity of field and mountain
    And the cold ocean and glittering stars might enter their minds.''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 5-7). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
    60 person liked.
    		12 person did not like.
  • ''the dive-bomber's screaming orgasm
    As beautiful as other passions;''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 12-13). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
    17 person liked.
    		11 person did not like.
  • ''And why do you cry, my dear, why do you cry?
    It is all in the whirling circles of time.
    If millions are born millions must die,''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. May—June, 1940 (l. 16-18). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
    50 person liked.
    		12 person did not like.
  • ''They dance with reluctance, they are growing civilized; the old men
    persuade them.''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. New Mexican Mountain (l. 4). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
    8 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • ''Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. New Mexican Mountain (l. 5). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
    4 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • ''civilization is a transient sickness.''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. New Mexican Mountain (l. 12). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
    7 person liked.
    		4 person did not like.
  • ''Life is grown sweeter and lonelier,
    And death is no evil.''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 64-65). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    9 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • ''And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill,
    Though furious for continuance, passionately feeding, passionately
    Remaking itself upon its mates, remembers deep inward
    The calm mother, the quietness of the womb and the egg,''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 51-54). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    6 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • ''O passionately at peace when will that tide draw shoreward,''
    Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Night (l. 47). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    4 person liked.
    		2 person did not like.

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So Many Blood-Lakes

We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were
slipped in. We have levelled the powers
Of Europe, that were the powers of the world, into rubble and
dependence. We have won two wars and a third is comming.

This one--will not be so easy. We were at ease while the powers of the
world were split into factions: we've changed that.
We have enjoyed fine dreams; we have dreamed of unifying the world; we
are unifying it--against us.

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