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• Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Pain, Blood, Excess

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.16, Stanford University Press

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• Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Weakness, Fierce, Bones

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

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  Fire, Way, Reason

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.46, Stanford University Press

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• You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Life, Long, Shining

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Men, Quality, Western

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.154, Stanford University Press

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