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Robinson Jeffers
American
Poet
About the author
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers,
American
Poet
#Pleasure
The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
Robinson Jeffers,
American
Poet
#Love
#Freedom
#Man
#Quality
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
Robinson Jeffers,
American
Poet
#Nature
#Human nature
#Cruelty
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
Robinson Jeffers,
American
Poet
#Pain
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
Robinson Jeffers,
American
Poet
#Imagination
#Mind
#Solitude