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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.... (more Robinson Jeffers quotes)
| The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers) by Robinson Jeffers and Tim Hunt | |
| Robinson Jeffers, Poet of California by James Karman | |
| Not Man Apart: Lines from Robinson Jeffers (A Sierra Club-Ballantine book) by Robinson Jeffers and David Brower |
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